Thank you so much Laura and Kristen for your encouraging words! I really appreciate your interest in, and responses to, my posts.

I had my first radiation treatment today and, wow, is that mask weird! I had to close my eyes and talk myself down for the claustrophobia that set in. For me, not panicking and ripping that mask off was definitely a mind over irrational fear situation.

Can anybody suggest a good cream to put over the skin that was irradiated today? Should it be a moisturizer or something else?

Thank you,
Mark