Bill,

First off you must wear the mask or your precisely aimed radiation will not do the job it's designed to do and that is kill the cancer. So you are putting your life at great risk since this cancer is extremely aggressive.

That said, you now must dig as deep as you can within yourself and just do it. You really don't have any option unless, of course, you want to give in to the cancer which will kill you in about a year. It's was not pleasant at first for any of us and granted some have a worse time than others. I will say, like just about anything else, you will become accustomed to it but you have to do once to start to get use to it. Some have gotten meds to help them and I found listening to loud music did the trick for me. Even when I didn't like the song I would count to myself to see how long each position took. If you're like most of us you will have appx 35 treatments with each lasting less than 15 minutes so come on tell yourself "I can do this!!"