djbattle,

I had brachytherapy after I had finished my regular radiation treatments. By then, I was already experiencing some pretty severe effects (mouth sores, swallowing difficulties, etc.) and the incremental impact of brachytherapy wasn't particularly noticeable.

The procedure started with surgery to implant the tubes into my tongue (the surgery was fairly uneventful in the greater scheme of things), then they inserted the seeds into the tubes. When you have radiation in your body like that you have to be in an isolation room -- I was there for about a day and a half and my husband could only visit for about 10 minutes because of the radiation exposure risk. Aside from a certain level of boredom, due to the "solitary confinement", it really wasn't too bad overall. I remember being very apprehensive about it beforehand, and then thinking afterward that it was much less painful (and stressful) than I had imagined.

Cathy