Radiation - a whole new challenge
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My Radiation Oncologist had me on Flamazine cream when the burns really started. Magic stuff.
I used it with the dressings they sent me home with for two weeks after radiation finished.
I got a script for 10 tubes for $38.80 from the Rad Onc. The pharmacy had to order it in for me though, they only carried two tubes.
I started to feel human and not to need a sleep during the day after about 4 months post readiation. I can now go most of the time as I normally would have, though I have reduced my work load to about half. I am self employed, so can do that.
I finished radiation at the beginning of November last year.
I would say I am now about 80% back to what I was.
Perhaps also I am less inclined to overdo everything and now listen to my body, which I didn't do before, so I guess that affects how much I do compared to before diagnosis too.
I found radiation gruelling. I think it was also that it was the last of a full year of treatment, so I was worn down, both mentally and physically. And afterwards also a little bit lost once the routine of constant treatment finished, that contributed to the emotional crash I experienced for a few months afterwards, and still do at times.
A lovely client of mine mine who had been through it all a few years before me said, you will have bad times, it is normal. Mine can last a few days before I manage to give myself a shake and go on with renewed enthusiasm.
Treat yourself gently, you have been through a lot.
I used it with the dressings they sent me home with for two weeks after radiation finished.
I got a script for 10 tubes for $38.80 from the Rad Onc. The pharmacy had to order it in for me though, they only carried two tubes.
I started to feel human and not to need a sleep during the day after about 4 months post readiation. I can now go most of the time as I normally would have, though I have reduced my work load to about half. I am self employed, so can do that.
I finished radiation at the beginning of November last year.
I would say I am now about 80% back to what I was.
Perhaps also I am less inclined to overdo everything and now listen to my body, which I didn't do before, so I guess that affects how much I do compared to before diagnosis too.
I found radiation gruelling. I think it was also that it was the last of a full year of treatment, so I was worn down, both mentally and physically. And afterwards also a little bit lost once the routine of constant treatment finished, that contributed to the emotional crash I experienced for a few months afterwards, and still do at times.
A lovely client of mine mine who had been through it all a few years before me said, you will have bad times, it is normal. Mine can last a few days before I manage to give myself a shake and go on with renewed enthusiasm.
Treat yourself gently, you have been through a lot.