If today’s blood test doesn’t veto, Nadine’s radiation treatment will be continued with seven more sessions to come. That’s good news in a medical sense – the radiation is absolutely crucial to her. But it is also good news for her well-being. It may sound strange, but she told me that she is able to enjoy these sessions, regardless of the irritating fact that somebody is directing rays around her brain. The reason is that she is wearing a customized mask that keeps all external influences away . Did I already tell you that one of her current troubles is stimulus satiation? So it’s good to see that treatment is back on track and that it also provides her some quietness.

Radiation to the head makes you loose your hair after some time and this process kicked in a few days ago. So we decided to set a mark and I shaved her head yesterday. I already got some experience: back in 2014, during her chemotherapy, I had to do the same thing. There were bouts of three weeks then and we decided to use one of the gaps to visit the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona. The one day I shaved her head, the next day we hopped on a plane. Although she felt weak sometimes, she mastered the task of attending a festival with bravery. In the picture above you can see her watching from the sideline wearing one of her newly aquired hats. We decided against a wig because these hats or caps look great on her.

One of the bands we saw at Primavera were Slowdive, an outfit who were completely off the radar for about two decades. Their floating shoegaze-sound always has a comforting effect on Nadine’s mind, even though the live version is a bit more noisy than the album track: