Thursday, December 1, 2011

treatments so far

I see the Doctor every Wed and this one he might have something to say. I really don't know how this whole thing with radiation goes. I have the routine down now. I go in and get my kimono on and they come and get me from a real nice waiting room where they have a fridge stocked with juices for us ( being all the ladies waiting for their treatment) and a coffee maker and crackers. My actual radiation treatment takes about 10 minutes and 10 minutes to get me set up. I get on a table and crawl up into a form that is made for my upper back head and shoulders area and then lift my hands up above my head and grab this bar that is like the handle bars on a bike. Once I do that, they move me around a bit according to Lazar beams, then they do a CT scan and then they will say OK we are going to start the treatment now over a speaker, (they have left the room by then). They turn on what ever kind of music I want.I hold as still as I can and I think I am real still. They keep saying what a great job I am doing. ( what just laying there) yes I am good at just laying around. I think I could go pro with it. If it were a Olympic event I am sure at this time in my life I could be a gold medal winner.

My treatment on Friday made me a little sick, so did my treatment on Monday. They gave me a prescription for compazine for those times. He said on Monday that it was touching my liver a little bit that could cause me to be a bit sick. also they are going up my neck to right under my ear. He said that could make me lose my appetite. I had a bit of a rash today and it was slightly red and itchy. The nodes under my armpit have been sore again the last 3 days, but I cant feel anything so I think that it is just the treatments. Feeling a little off this morning and stomach is talking alot.

Today the Doctor showed Dan and I all the films of my treatment and exactly where it had been going. You can see that it is already shrinking tissue on my sternum. There is no real tumor they are going for so you cant see a shrinking tumor. They are going after the area that they could not get clear margins when they removed the tumor.
I can say that the sternum area is very sensitive and remains sore to painful . Still cant sleep on my stomach or my left side for some reason it hurts worse on that side.

Heard a great sermon about everyday being a gift. I do believe that. Great sermon. 







Life is good and we just keep moving forward.

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