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My3sons
8 years agoMember
Any Oncology or Haematology or Palliative care nurses out there?
Well this is still all quite surreal to me! I’ve been an oncology/haematology/palliative care nurse for 30+ Year’s .....when people ask what kind of nursing I do I generalise and say “I’m a cancer nur...
My3sons
8 years agoMember
I thought radiation would be a walk in the park and probably compared to chemo it is! The fatigue! When they said fatigue a side effect they weren’t joking! Probably continuing to work 4 days a week didn’t help, but as radiotherapy has a cumulative apeffectprobably the first week after treatment the worst so then I took a week off! For the burns I lathered myself in Q.V. dry skin then when it got worse dermeze (like moo goo I think)! My boob ok....quite tanned now compared to her poor white sister! Think my underarm (where they removed my sentinel node) wore the brunt of it....only just healed after surgery! A few zaps from radiation and it went to crap! All good now tho! Salty ocean water helped.....even with rashly on! It’s a purple raspy tho so I’m all good with that lol!
Only had bone density post radiation so been on the Letrozole a week! Pharmacist tells me will take a few weeks before side effects so will let you know!!
Only had bone density post radiation so been on the Letrozole a week! Pharmacist tells me will take a few weeks before side effects so will let you know!!