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v-ness · 02-27-2010, 07:14 PM

wow, we're almost on the same radiation track! i just started last monday. 5 days down, 30 more to go. i don't mind radiation much except the fact that the room is so cold and my chest is half bare. i just try to tell myself it's worse for a guy getting it in the testicles.

it takes longer to get undressed and for them to position you than it takes for the actual zaps. i get 10 seconds from the lower left and 10 seconds from the upper right. it's a bit undignified laying there with your arms about your head in that wooden torture contraption (my arms fall asleep).

been slathering myself with with $4 aloe after-sun goo instead of the $40 biofine they suggested. so far so good and absolutely no side effects whatsoever. if this weather ever clears my plan is to walk up to the hospital then back to work to somehow work some exercise into this lunch-time cancer fun i'm stuck doing.

i hope you have an uneventful radiation tour. it's kind of nice knowing there's someone doing it at almost exactly the same time. best, valerie

02-27-2010, 07:14 PM	#6
v-ness Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: western ma Posts: 280	Re: Pink Wishes Quilt wow, we're almost on the same radiation track! i just started last monday. 5 days down, 30 more to go. i don't mind radiation much except the fact that the room is so cold and my chest is half bare. i just try to tell myself it's worse for a guy getting it in the testicles. it takes longer to get undressed and for them to position you than it takes for the actual zaps. i get 10 seconds from the lower left and 10 seconds from the upper right. it's a bit undignified laying there with your arms about your head in that wooden torture contraption (my arms fall asleep). been slathering myself with with $4 aloe after-sun goo instead of the $40 biofine they suggested. so far so good and absolutely no side effects whatsoever. if this weather ever clears my plan is to walk up to the hospital then back to work to somehow work some exercise into this lunch-time cancer fun i'm stuck doing. i hope you have an uneventful radiation tour. it's kind of nice knowing there's someone doing it at almost exactly the same time. best, valerie __________________ 8/09 - IDC 1.8 cm triple positive, lumpectomy left breast 10/09 began chemo (taxotere & carboplatin) and weekly herceptin. 1/21/10 finished chemo, continued on herceptin every 3 weeks until 10/2010. 2/10 began 7 wks of radiation 6/10 mom dies of primary peritoneal ovarian cancer 8/10 got my last remaining ovary out 10/10 mammogram all clear 3/11 MRI shows 5 'spots' in right breast, largest 1 cm unidentifiable on US needle biopsy proved the largest to be old inflamed cyst -phew! 7/10 switched to Arimidex 8/9 switched to Femara - allergic to arimidex Femara made me lose hair quickly so switched to Aromasin Aromasin made my hair fall out too and the bone pain was too much. back on Tamoxifen 1/2013. blood clot from trains and planes 5/2014 so on coumadin per onco for as long as i am on tamoxifen tamoxifen was supposed to be up with my 5 yrs in may but my boyfriend was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer so i am staying on tamoxifen indefinitely because i want some ammo against BC, given the stress. lost my husband in only 10 wks in 2007 to stage 4 esophageal cancer. cancer's screwing with another man i love 2/2016 - 6yrs in remission, off tamoxifen and off coumadin - yay!