Hi all,
Thank you so much for all of your support! My apologies for the late reply.....It has been a challenging week. I commenced radiotherapy on Wednesday and did have a discussion about cost. They were very amenable to cutting costs and I have now a very small gap to pay. I will stay with them as it is close to home and on the way home from work.
It really is all such an inconvenience this cancer thing. I have had to have so much time off work, I am hoping to work through radiotherapy. I'll see how I go. I got frustrated the other day when both my surgeon and the radiotherapy bookings wanted me to have appointments during work hours. I know sometimes it is unavoidable for them, however I reminded them that we all have lives that we need to continue with during this time. One of the appointments was in the middle of the day! Which meant I would have neither been able to work a decent few hours either side of the appointment due to travel time etc. I think it is good for those providing services to have a reminder of this every now and then....
@Flaneuse, @Zoffiel , @Brenda5, @arpie I am seeing my surgeon on the 14th of January, so will definitely be asking for a transfer to the public system.
@Sarnicad, Thanks for letting me know re the immediate redness from Radiotherapy-I think I maybe had a lingering redness from a bad infection the few weeks prior, I don't have a fever so they are holding off on antibiotics and the Rad onc nurses have taken photos daily to see how it progresses. Definitely red and sore and worse since I started rads. No worse over the weekend though,so maybe just from the radiation. I am slathering in MOOGOO at the moment.
Michelle xox
