Light At The End of the Tunnel? Day #14
Or is it an oncoming train? Lol.
Days #12, #13, #14 done. As per my usual, Monday and Tuesday were pretty good; although I had a bout with fatigue Monday night. Had to go to bed at 9:00 p.m. which is so not the norm for this night owl. Was so tired I was shaky. Wednesday (today) brought more pain focused in a couple of areas including the usual under the breast rib area and higher up near the crease where my arm is. There are occasional shooting pains throughout, but the areas I am talking about have a combination of burning, stinging, soreness and itching in equal parts. My pain level today is closer to a 7 whereas yesterday it was more like a 3. I don't feel particularly tired and have napped very little during the day (I think once ... lol) and I have to admit the cumulative effect of fatigue was the side effect that worried me the most. For me, it's up and down rather than a linear pattern getting just a little harder each day.
So I see my doctor (radiation oncologist) every Tuesday and he looks at my X-rays they take every week and does a physical exam. So yesterday, after my lovely blue paper gown was off, he looks left and right several times. Then he says, "Wow, that's weird." Not exactly the words you want to hear out of your doctor's mouth in the exam room. So I queried him on that. He told me he could barely tell any difference in my skin from one side to the other (no redness, no blotchiness, no real tanning discoloration, etc.) and that was remarkable at this stage of treatment. I guess this was a good weird.
I have another treatment tomorrow and then one again on Monday and I will be 3/4ths of the way through and will begin tumor blast treatments for my last 5 treatments on Tuesday. My final day should be Tuesday, April 24th. Counting down the days!
Days #12, #13, #14 done. As per my usual, Monday and Tuesday were pretty good; although I had a bout with fatigue Monday night. Had to go to bed at 9:00 p.m. which is so not the norm for this night owl. Was so tired I was shaky. Wednesday (today) brought more pain focused in a couple of areas including the usual under the breast rib area and higher up near the crease where my arm is. There are occasional shooting pains throughout, but the areas I am talking about have a combination of burning, stinging, soreness and itching in equal parts. My pain level today is closer to a 7 whereas yesterday it was more like a 3. I don't feel particularly tired and have napped very little during the day (I think once ... lol) and I have to admit the cumulative effect of fatigue was the side effect that worried me the most. For me, it's up and down rather than a linear pattern getting just a little harder each day.
So I see my doctor (radiation oncologist) every Tuesday and he looks at my X-rays they take every week and does a physical exam. So yesterday, after my lovely blue paper gown was off, he looks left and right several times. Then he says, "Wow, that's weird." Not exactly the words you want to hear out of your doctor's mouth in the exam room. So I queried him on that. He told me he could barely tell any difference in my skin from one side to the other (no redness, no blotchiness, no real tanning discoloration, etc.) and that was remarkable at this stage of treatment. I guess this was a good weird.
I have another treatment tomorrow and then one again on Monday and I will be 3/4ths of the way through and will begin tumor blast treatments for my last 5 treatments on Tuesday. My final day should be Tuesday, April 24th. Counting down the days!
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