one week...

so week one of two is over. i will never forget this week.
first the surreal tantalum clips operation which seemed fine at first. however the following night was not easy at all. moving the eyes resulted in a lot of pain. no painkillers worked, nothing seemed to help. the only option was not to move the eyes. wish someone would have told me in advance that this can happen for some period of time. i would have taken some audiobooks along. thank god the next morning the pain was slowly but surely fading away.
two days after the operation i went to the paul scherrer institute (http://www.psi.ch/index_e.shtml) for the first time. the psi operates the cyclotron machine. again a weird experience in itself. we drove by bus to the psi which seems to be in the middle of nowhere (something not easy to accomplish in switzerland). as it was misty visibility was limited. slowly but surely out of the fog, and behind a large fence i was able to see the outer parts of the cyclotron machine. this machine is large, all in all about the size of half a soccer field. and its protons get accelerated to 60% of lightspeed and are then fired into my eye. and all this for a 'little' tumor. yikes!

-pj