The (Hopefully) Home Stretch
It's the first full week of April, and I'm starting to feel normal again. I should say "new normal". Even though I'm finishing my 2nd of three weeks of daily radiation treatments, I'm feeling pretty well, just a little burned from the radiation. My cat now thinks that walking on my burns while I'm napping is a great new passtime. Mostly, I'm just a bit sore from the burns, and my surgical areas are either numb or just a bit sore, and I have some residual swelling, which will go down as time passes. But radiation, although daily, goes very quickly once they have you all set up. They x-ray me every monday to make sure my bones are doing ok, and I see the radiology oncologist every Wednesday, so that's comforting. I have to admit, March of this year wasn't much fun. It took about 14 days before my drains could be removed (which is normal), but it makes it hard to sleep as they are sewn to the skin, and if you accidentally lay on one, or move the