Radiation after lumpectomy

@Sister @arpie Thought I'd post you both a quickie before I start packing up to go off for my second week! Thanks to you both for your thoughts. It really helps having a group of wonderful ladies to help us all through this. Even though we are all going down different paths & treatments, we are all joined by a common denominator & are here for each other! @Sister I am having my treatment at Adelaide Radiotherapy Centre which has 4 locations & I am doing it at the Calvary Central District Hospital at Elizabeth Vale. Great new facility with heaps of parking. I have a swipe card that I swipe as i enter the building & that alerts the staff that I have arrived. I then go to my pigeon hole out the back & get my gown & hospital bag, then get changed & then use my swipe card to go to a private waiting room with tea, coffee, fruit, TV & lots of comfy couches & mags/newspapers to read. It even has an outside area to sit in if you wish. Any family/friends that come with you can sit in there too & then the girls come & get me when they are ready for me. After it is finished, I get changed & then leave my gown & bag back in my pigeon hole ready for the next day. My rad onc is Dr Borg but as he doesn't visit that facility very often, he has referred me to see Dr Tran for my weekly reviews.  @arpie I'm sure the lodge you are staying at will make life a lot easier for you. It will be a home away from home & having your hubby with you will be great. My sister & family are looking after me so well & spoiling me as my hubby has had to stay home & keep working as his is the only income coming in while I am going through this as I am only a casual worker.I reckon he is coming to Adelaide next week for a course so he will stay with me at my sister's which will be great. make the use of having the cafeteria nearby for meals as it will make it easier for you. I am getting a bit tired & probably the travelling isn't helping that either. We have been making meals & freezing them so when I come home, it is one less job to do if i am tired. Great that you have a group at Pt Macquarie ready to see. I was going to checkout a group while i was in Adelaide but my breast care nurse thought I would be fine with the support of my family & friends in Adelaide & it would be one less thing to worry about travelling to as i seem to have enough appts at the moment. A lot of my family are in the medical field - physio, nursing, exercise physiologist & i even have a rad therapist in my extended family who i am having coffee with on Thursday so i have a good support network. Take your uke to the meeting & you can play a tune a cheer up everyone!! Good luck for Wednesday as you begin. I am 3 down & 13 to go & you will be counting down soon as well.    I'll be thinking of you both & wishing you love & courage as you both deal with your treatments this week. We are all too nice to have to be going through this but we will get through together. Hugs to you both & I'll catch up when I am home next xxxx