I'll be Radioactive

I've been devoting more of my time to researching the treatment I will be undergoing in August. When I take the RAI 131 I will be radioactive, possibly for up to 3 weeks. Some hospitals keep patients in an isolation room for up to 3 days. Many physicians tell their patients to check into a hotel for a few days. Each time I use the restroom I'm supposed to flush the toilet 3 times to get rid of as much radioactivity as possible. I'm not supposed to be around my kids for several days, some moms actually stay away for up to two weeks but everything I've read so far says this is overly cautious and unnneccessary. I can't touch other peoples' food and I have to eat with disposable utensils. I shouldn't sleep in the same bed as anyone else and I have to launder my linen, towels, clothes separately from everyone else's and run a couple of extra rinse cycles. When the doctors' bring in the medicine for me to take they are all decked out in protective gear and will hand me a heavy metal tube which I will open and extract a pill or liquid from a tube to take so no one else has to touch it. This is one nutty ass disease. At least it's supposedly highly curable. I told my husband to change my ringtone after I have my treatment to the song Radioactive. He likes that. That's about all he likes about this situation. More to come....