I just thought I’d share this getting started on radiotherapy journey with you as it’s starting to seem really funny. I’m hoping I don’t jinx myself by telling it that’s all.
So I’ve had the surgery, done the chemo, had 3 weeks to recover from chemo and I’ve just got 3 weeks of radiotherapy before this bit is done and it hopefully becomes just hormone therapy (yeah I know it won’t be “just” when I get there)
So Wednesday last week day 1 of radiotherapy comes, me and OH jump into the car and take the back route up to Carlise and suddenly the clutch goes and the car dies, about 40 mins walk from the hospital and 20 mins before appointment. Out with the mobile… it’s dead too, so that’s it, no way I’m going to get there in time. I dash to phone box, call breakdown cover while OH attempts to get car going but no joy without the part. Anyway never made it.
Apparently one of the radiotherapists saw us broken down but assumed we were on the way home and managed to confuse the hospital by swearing she’d seen us (when in fact we were near but oh so far !)
Anyway they let me start today instead and the car passed its MOT on friday so all is well again.
Moral of the story, get the car checked first!
So here I am day 1, quick zapping. Nothing. nada. Bit tired but have been since midway through chemo so nothing new there.
Glad you got there eventually! Am waiting for rads dates after chemo and surgery (being a neo-adjuvant kind of girl) so keep us posted on progress: FB’s experience was a bit worrying. Still, maybe rads during a chilly London autumn might be a bit easier to deal with than a hot Spanish summer.
Good luck with everything & cheers for sharing, girls. Means a lot for those of following on a few weeks after. Seriously.
Lanterna, to b honest didnt have many side effects, i have a stiff neck now and headaces and sore ribs but nothing compared to chemo, didnt feel a thing at time jsut a little tired half way through. hope it goes well.
Well I’m 2 weeks down so this is my last week of treatment (for now gulp) I can’t wait for Friday, despite the fact that real life is looming large out there (daren’t open any bills right now double gulp).
What a week ahead. head down and work through it I say.
And now it’s finished… I am a happy happy lady this eve, and so’s my poor OH who’s been driving me up to carlisle and back for the last 3 weeks… go Tommy. And now to live our lives, whatever they may hold. At the start of the year I was a happy go lucky naive woman thinking things like breast cancer happen to other people, generally people who are much older and unhealthy. When all along I had the BRCA 1 gene so there was an 85% chance it would happen to me.
But time moves on and I’m older and wiser… in all honesty I’m mainly feeling older at the mo though
Diagnosed late Jan, finished seeing too much of Carlisle hospital Nov, what a long old journey but all the people who’ve treated me have been great and I’m not a patient patient
Lots of love and good luck to anyone about to start rads or chemo.
