The Scream

No CT scan on Tuesday. The doc hurt his foot and had to reschedule, so I'll be doing it tomorrow.

So, ever since I had the radiation mask made for me, I thought about what I might do with it when my treatments were over. I could have thrown it away or used it as a pasta strainer... but what I really wanted to do was to paint it. Almost everyday while wearing it during treatments I thought of what I might paint on it. My first idea was to somehow make it into a spongebob squarepants mask, but I couldn't figure out how to make a rounded object into a squarepants head.

Then my creative, fun-loving sister-in-law Lisa decided that we would have a costume contest on our summer vacation at the lake cabin. The contest was that each person or family would have to come up with a costume and there would be a delightful prize to be won for the best costume. Well, I couldn't think of anything and pretty much immediately decided I would just paint my mask and that would be my costume.

I finally decided to paint something I thought was wildly appropriate for a torture device such as my radiation mask. I decided to paint Eduard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" on my mask. It doesn't get more symbolic than that, right?