I am so glad you are in the final stage of this nightmare. Sorry to hear you have 30 radiation treatments left. Every 3 months for 2 years is certainly an encouraging follow-up plan and hopefully, after that, they will go to 6 months and finally to one year. The day the cancer center kicks you to the curb, will be a great day. I am planning to bake a cake when you complete radiation and celebrate your victorious journey thru the back streets of hell. You remind me of one of my cousins that beat breast cancer and lived to be 97. She was short 4'10" but mightly in spirit.
Thanks, girl. I wish you could send me some of that cake. Some people get all "health foody" when they have a cancer Dx, but it just made me realize that life is short and I'm going to eat the damn cake. I wish I was mighty in spirit but I have been a puddle of goo for the last 9 months or so. Now for the last hurdle of radiation!! I suppose the "good news" about that 30 treatments is that patients who don't get PCR from chemo have to have TWO treatments a day for 25 days. OMG.
I had the chemo port removed from my chest and neck earlier today. The procedure was outpatient and done under local anesthetic. It was uncomfortable with a lot of pulling and tugging, plus the doctor had to trim some scar tissue that had formed around the device. Ick. Then the wound was sutured closed and bandaged. So it's DONE and I'm glad to see the last of that torture device. Now that I'm home and the anesthetic is wearing off the wound is beginning to hurt, so that gives me a good reason to lay around and be a slug. I got home and immediately put my PJs back on.
Tomorrow is my first "date" with radiation. This will be my first day of daily treatments for the next 6 weeks. In other news, my hair is coming back (about 1/2" long) and I discovered that I have a cowlick in the front that looks exactly like my little grandson's. Who knew?
Thanks, Bibbi. Today is in the record books and we're already home. I'm glad they were able to book my appointments for late morning so that we don't have to deal with rush hour every day for 6 weeks. I had a verklempt moment when I got on the table and tears started to fall. But tomorrow should be easier, so let's get this thing done!
How did your radiation treatment go today? Hope you doing well the second treatment is with no side effects.
health and wellness, gosh wish I had some of that. In January neurosurgeon removed a brain tumor from me but had to leave several pieces in could not risk trying to remove the, guess he thought it would turn me into Forest Gump, but when you think about it Forest Gump turned out pretty well in the end. Doc say that is just a movie, fiction, not real we can't make decisions based on a stupid movie. I'm willing to take the chance, better than letting these pieces screw up my personality as they grow and press against healthy brain matter. They are in the region of cognition, reasoning, math, langue, spelling word recognition skills. He acts like it is his brain he is trying to protect, if I am willing to risk it what the heck, so I lose the ability to spell or do math, big deal at my age not required to do much of that anymore, my son handles that stuff. I vote he cracks my skull open again.
Sorry to hear of your tumor(s), Samual. There are many treatments available now; is radiation not an option? Good luck to you.
Hey there @Beth Gallagher here comes today's good luck, will be thinking about you message. Hope you see this before you leave today. I couldn't get on earlier as my browser couldn't connect to the SOC server.
I am guessing Samuals tumors are benign. I have one and the only way to remove it is the knife which can result in more damage than good. They can use focused radio beams for removing some brain tumors, but for some benign tumors, that push up against other brain matter that can be risky. I chose to leave mine be as my personality was already in the loo anyway. I had rather have my math and thought process skills than become a bubbly sweetheart hahaha! Great to hear your skin is holding up against the radiation assault.