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Re: radiation questions
You don't say what type of chemo you had? Per my doc, adriamycin seems to make our skin more sensitive to the radiation and it was an ongoing battle to keep my redness under control. An Acupuncturist found a wonderful burn sauve that I used and was approved by all my docs - Springwind Burn Sauve - find it online. It smells like dead leaves and is brown but definitely saved me. Nothing else worked. I also treated myself to a soft, shirt that zipped down the front that was my "radiation outfit" - easy on, easy off. You will do fine - radiation is much easier on the body than chemo.
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11/19/10 Identified swollen lymph node
1/24/11 Mammogram showed microcalcifications - no mass
2/4/11 Diagnosed ER/PR- HER2+++
2/23/11 Began TCH protocol every 21 days 6x
5/23/11 Ultrasound of originally diseased lymph node shows normal
7/25/11 Lymph node dissection - 8 of 14 show disease
7/29/11 Double mastectomy with reconstruction (expanders)
8/29/11 Begin follow up chemo - Adriamycin 4 treatments every 2 weeks and Xeloda. Self inject Nupogen shots
1/6/12 6 weeks of Radiation finished
2/13/12 Last Herceptin/remove port
3/27/12 PET/Brain Scan NED :)
8/15/12 Final reconstruction - hello nipples, good bye expanders
9/14/12 Rejected implant/infection. Implant removed
5/6/13 Latissumis Dorsi surgery left side with expander
PS - my photo was taken 5 days after my double mastectomy surgery and 6 weeks after my TCH was completed
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