Hello my friends!!! There has been a lot of stuff since my last post. Finished radiation is the biggest one! I also left my job, started a new job and school is back in session for both me and the boys. The jobs will be another post all to itself. Let’s talk about finishing radiation. I couldn’t have done any of it without my very supportive family. I was able to get my treatments in the afternoons, and come home and nap until dinner time. I fully believe that one thing of taking a nap after treatment is what saved me from major side effects. A bigger than anything, ‘Thank you’ goes out to the family.

I finished 20 radiation treatments. Rang my bell and started to have some pretty awful skin issues. I drank as much water as I could get into me, rested and when the skin issue was really bad, used the silvadene cream the doctor had prescribed for me. When he and I talked about the silvadene cream, he kept saying it would help with the pain. At the time, I wasn’t having any pain. The very next day, I had pain. Now a week 1/2 after my last treatment, still have some issues but no pain.

But of course it couldn’t go the whole time without something going wrong. On the Monday of what was supposed to be my last week of treatments, it was the start of my boost week. They needed to take an Xray prior to starting my treatments. The x-ray machine didn’t work after I got on the table and all set up. My reaction, oh well. Do I need to come on the following Monday to finish all my sessions, was my only question. The doctor was apologetic for the machine not working. I told him, it’s a machine and things happen. So instead of finishing on Friday I would have to come that next Monday to finish up. Which I think was blessing in disguise anyway because it gave my skin a few days in-between the boost treatments. Even with the short delay, I felt like my treatments went by so fast!!! More than likely, that was due to my work schedule. More on that is the next post. Thanks for all the support!!! You all have helped me more than you could ever know. Next chapter will be starting Tamoxifen 2 weeks after radiation is over.