Within minutes, Anna Belle's dark body fell limp on the towel. Twedt gently pulled out the dog's tongue to prevent her from swallowing it when she came out of anesthesia. A plastic tube was placed down her throat. To check her heart rate and oxygen level, a monitor was clamped on her tongue. The room is about the size of a small bedroom.
Counters line the wall.
In the center stands the linear accelerator radiation machine, which looks like an oversized microscope. Anna Belle was laid, belly down, on a glass table. Her head was propped up with an empty plastic gauze container. Afterwards, she was groggy coming off the anesthetic. She let out a cough and slowly lifted her head from the beach towel.