Forum Discussion
PamelaP
8 years agoMember
Radiation - a whole new challenge
Now Radiation Burns & dressings - who said it was easy ? Thanks all for your lovely comments & advice on holiday houses that are free (I have heard of the Otis houses as my daughter & her family we...
Captaingrumpypa
8 years agoMember
Oh @pamelap you sound just like me! It's awful isn't it? So many people said I'd find radiation a breeze compared to chemo, so I wasn't really prepared for how bad I would feel. I'm three weeks finished now and it's been seriously rough. The burns have had me just as incapacitated as I was after my mastectomy and the fatigue is next level. I'm not able to do much at all, and the various fitness and social activities I picked up after chemo have fallen away. Just when I was expecting to be 'getting back to normal' I'm physically struggling and depressed. My poor boyfriend has had to put up with more teary meltdowns in the last couple of weeks than he has in months.
And I'm hating having to skip the bra and let Old Righty free-boob in public!
Here's hoping things pick up for you (and me!) very soon x
And I'm hating having to skip the bra and let Old Righty free-boob in public!
Here's hoping things pick up for you (and me!) very soon x