Showing posts with label effects of radiation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label effects of radiation. Show all posts

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Day 19 of Radiation

    Sheesh!  Enough already.
    I still have four more days of radiation to go... 
    At this point my left breast is a sad puppy: bright pink and droopy and tender.  When I brush against or bump into something, it reminds me of being  a nursing mother and having to drive home from a days's work with tender cement blocks on my front, overfilled with milk.
    I want to tell the radiation folks, "Thanks---this will be enough for me." 
    Oh well, I guess dropping out is not allowed.
    My energy level is low but I keep bumbling around trying to do things instead of just resting.  As a result, things take longer and the choices I make are not as good.  Short circuits in the frontal temporal lobe.
    The good news: I hope to start the drive to Colorado on Aug. 1.
    Also on that day I start taking Arimidex, one a day for the next five years.
    Yippee, I'm on The Pill again.  Not.
    At least I don't have to do chemo therapy.