Really? Bolt me to the table?

I went in for my first visit for radiation. I needed to get fitted for a mask for my face and neck area. Then I learned this mask would BOLT to the table so I could not move. The first time I was BOLTED I cried the whole time. Too bad, my tears couldn't even roll down my face and just pooled over my eyes making it worse and I could not see. The great nurses at the cancer center, cut out my eyes nose and mouth so I did not feel so claustrophobic. This helped a ton! Needless to say it was only 3 weeks of radiation. I lost my hair and have a bald spot on the back of my head, and a little burn to my skin but over all it was not as bad a chemo.