AHHH Radiation
Radiation i was told would be a walk in the park compared to Chemo, and i guess compared to Chemo it was, i needed 30 sessions and 6 booster sessions in the last week, i went every day was only there for 5 mins treatment and for the first 4 weeks didn't see any changes, then the burning started to happen and continued to happen over the next few weeks, the position of the cancer was at 6 o'clock on my right breast and this meant it was really lined up with my bra line - very uncomfortable and as the burning took hold this area became infected and hard to manage, even if i didn't wear a bra my breast fell over this area, i needed to have something to lift the breast up and off the wound, of course this was not possible so it made it very hard to manage the wound and as the burning got worse so did the wound, i found lots of airing - lying flat on back in privacy to dry it out whenever i could then to have the whole wound bandaged right around my back, i'm thinking at this point i do not think it is a walk in the park and what were they talking about??? I was in a lot of pain, bathing it was painful, dressing it even more painful and i could not wait to finish radiation, i felt like i had 3rd degree burns that continued to burn constantly. Finally i finished the treatment and i could begin to heal, this took alot of time due to the position of the wound but within a few weeks i started to feel it getting better - thank goodness.
Its been a year since then and i look back now and think wow did that really happen seems so far away but i dont let myself forget because it reminds me to be relentless on checking myself for any new lumps, i do not want to go through that again. So far so good and i intend to keep it that way.
Keep well everyone
Di
