My 30 treatments ended the day before and radiation specialists gave me the mask that I had to wear during the treatments. It was a flat sheet of material that they soaked in hot water to loosen it up and form around my head, neck and shoulders before I started the treatments. The mask was strapped tight to the platform that I laid on so that it was almost impossible to move my head but due to the twenty pound weight loss it became somewhat loose on me. Many thanks to Sylvester Cancer Center technicians Lenia and Paolo for taking great care of me for the six weeks of treatments. I opted to receive the radiation treatments after a seven-hour operation on August 21st to remove a cyst under my right sideburn area that contained squamous cell skin cancer. Dr. Donald T. Weed, head of the Ear-Nose-Throat section and faculty member at UM's Miller School of Medicine, was my surgeon and he feels that they got all the cancer because the pathology report indicated no other cancer cells, but thought I should get the radiation treatments to make sure that every cell was killed.