Hi Maggie, thanks for your lovely comments. I’m just back from today’s session. I don’t know why I have suddenly got pain in my neck/shoulder but I suppose it’s the amount of sessions I’m having. These booster ones are just so long as they have to take X-rays first every day to check where the clips are. They had trouble again today. I was all set up ready to go and then they came in and told me they weren’t happy with my position so I had to sit up and start the process all over again. It wasn’t quite as long as yesterday - was probably about 20 minutes of laying still today. By the way I had no idea I had clips in my body til this week! I did ask if they would beep at the airport but apparently they don’t - I think they are really small.
Jill - Brad will be free after next Wednesday as that’s my last session - can’t wait - will definitely be opening a drop of something nice that day!
Got to take my daughter to doctors this morning as she has had chest pains all night - never a dull moment! Hopefully it’s just indigestion but she doesn’t look well.
Hi Amberstone
my hubby is a truck driver thats what time alarm goes off and its at my side of the bed …sometimes it set for two now youknow why im a night owl and body clock to pot ha x
chrisrine x
8 down 17 to go. Had my first review meeting today, only last 5 mins. Basically said the x rays are purely for positioning as I’m left side. I asked about damage to my lung as, although my heart is now out of the way,my lung is closer to the beams. He said there would be some minimal damage daily but that the cells would repair as they do in the breast. He also said that later in life my ribs would be more brittle on the left due to the radiation and there may be some lung fibrosis but these things were possible and not probable. Everything else, the tiredness, sore boob inside, ‘electric shocks’ etc were all normal and would settle down when the rads are complete. Upward and onward then…
Jennifer ,I’m hoping taking my husband to my first appointment will have same effect as he is definitely of the same opinion as your husband now op and results are over…Well done for controlling your bladder!!!
Well done tweasel! And a fetching purple jacket, lucky you, I get a pillowcase to cover me!
good idea to take oh to appointment, I find it an incredibly sad place to be, the staff are lovely but I think it really hits home what we’ve all been through and what the future may hold
I made some fudge yesterday to hand in to the staff and gave it to them this morning, they were delighted.
I also had my first review meeting, I explained that right from 1st session I was sore, hot and nneeded to take paracetamol. So off with the top again and she agreed that I was very very red and hot. Most alarming of all was that she felt a lump on my collarbone, she got a "spare"onc to come and see and he has ordered an ultrasound, hopefully nothing but erring on the side of caution
Sorry you’ve got the worry of lumps to go through as well as the red rads boob, Sheena. Hopefully it’s wind, though could it be enlarged lymph nodes? My armpit nodes have been swollen during rads, presumably due to the old body fighting all that’s happening to it.
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