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Gosh @KayB55 you’ve had a bad run! Hopefully the next stage is smooth running for you  :)
@Tinks couldn’t agree more with your comments! We are such experts in retrospect 
Caz xxx

Im so glad it’s on the mend😁 by the time we finish each stage we know what we would’a should’a and could’a been doing and then its too late ...lol.🤣🤣

onwards and upwards indeed! Lots of hugs 

Tinks xx

Well I discovered my mistake and after two weeks of regular visits to my GP to get my infected burn area cleaned up I am feeling good, well almost.  I was careless in week 3 after treatment when the blisters came up - a hard lesson to learn. Now that I have googled pictures of other burns I am so pleased I had not seen those before all of this. I was very smelly from the discharge from the infection but once we had it identified and onto the right antibiotics, I started to see improvement. The infection was resistant to most antibiotics so we had to get special permission for me to take this fancy one.  On Friday, 2 weeks after first going to my wonderful GP, and 9 visits later, we finally got to the point where we didn't need to clean it up and/or put new dressings on it. I even got to have a full body shower on Saturday - oh what bliss. Now one of my feet is playing up but this time I got onto it straight away with a physio visit to my house and another one coming up this week. Still, it is not moogoo's fault, just mine. The whole process was not as painful as I had expected and it is looking pretty good (sorry no pictures).  I finish my antibiotics next Wednesday then the next chapter begins, Tamoxifen.  I can hear the drum roll and instructions - onwards and upwards Kay.  

Sounds to me like a one off! Not your actions at all, one of those nasty but somewhere known risks of having broken skin. Don’t blame your self for this!! Hope is all settles soon on your treatment. Lots of love Tinks xx

Oh well, it could have been worse.

So sorry @KayB55 sounds tough. :/

OK I didn't expect this.  I was going along really well post radiation but in week 3 post rads, instead of healing up my radiation burn started blistering and getting sore and very uncomfortable. I went off to my GP and yes, my blisters were infected. After lots of clean ups,rebandaging, and test results which showed I had an infection that was out of the ordinary, I am now on a course of antibiotics specifically for this type of infection. Hopefully tomorrow's visit to GP will show that this antibiotic is reducing the infection, weeping etc. and I am on the road to recovery. It feels like it is improving although I am getting quite smelly.  I was so careful during chemo and even through most of radiation, I must have been outside doing something, come in washed my hands (but not well enough) and then applied cream to my burns and ........  A lesson well and truly learned I can tell you.  Gloves to be used at all times when applying creams etc.   Still, I do remind myself I have gotten off lightly throughout so I suppose (and I really hope) that this will be a good story for me to tell and laugh at my own stupidity.

Like above, I have finished radiation, two weeks ago and now the fatigue is really hitting big time Wasn't expecting that. I thought as I didn't notice as much during chemo..... but then I was at home not doing much and this time I have been at work. Only did two days at work last week and that was far too much so this week as I have scans etc I will absolutely minimize time at work perhaps not at all. My skin was great during radiation thanks to Moogoo but now it is really red and a bit hot, tender and itchy. I'll check with the rad nurse tomorrow after my first scan and get onto that. Body feeling really heavy but I assume that is fatigue. With so many other things around it is hard to know what is normal but then that is what every asks, what is the new normal! Still, I keep reminding myself how incredibly fortunate I have been so far. Two scans this week, blood test and then visit to Oncologist the following week for script for my five year plan and no doubt results of the scans. Gosh this has been a long way since last July when I discovered the world of Breast Cancer. A long way which seems to have been travelled very quickly, in no small way thanks to the wonderful people on this forum. Regards

Caz1 that’s great news.
Think positive it will be all cleared up before surgery.
Keep creaming up. Xx

@Tinks thank you, I don’t want to sound negative but I agree....lots of people breeze thru rads, frankly I have found it harder than chemo....my last week has been horrible, I’m still in a lot of pain, and it’s very mucky and yucky. Saw the nurse again yesterday, apparently it’s still ok. I must have very sensitive skin.  :'(  xxx

@Shellshocked2018_, thankyou.  The nurse and I have finally found a regime that works, and isn’t pulling off the skin every time I change my dressing...have got some bepanthen anyway up my sleeve in case I want to try something else, it was my best friend during chemo for split lips.
The only good thing about shitty Coronavirus is my husband is working from home, and he has been brilliant with painting on the cream and putting new dressings on. Everyone reckons once it starts healing it will be quick, I wish it would hurry up! I’m having surgery 17th April, ouch,I’m worried  it will still  be sooo tender  :| xxx