On the receiving end
Tomorrow I start my Radiation Therapy. Having been planning and delivering other people’s radiation for 10.5 years I admit that this is the part of my treatment that I have been stressed about the mos...
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@JoeyLiz - You were so helpful to me during radiation and took away a lot of my anxiety with your knowledge.
I didn't think the actual sessions were that bad so long as I remembered a pillow for my coccyx, my arms were not too bad.
I closed my eyes and kinda wandered off.
But to be on the receiving end will be of enormous comfort to future people. Why we get comfort from knowing others have suffered is another question, but we do.
I actually felt at my strongest since diagnosis at around week 3 of radiation.
It's just the relentless nature of it - day in, day out.
Thank you for your help and know that I'm thinking of you from afar - it must be freezing down there now.
I didn't think the actual sessions were that bad so long as I remembered a pillow for my coccyx, my arms were not too bad.
I closed my eyes and kinda wandered off.
But to be on the receiving end will be of enormous comfort to future people. Why we get comfort from knowing others have suffered is another question, but we do.
I actually felt at my strongest since diagnosis at around week 3 of radiation.
It's just the relentless nature of it - day in, day out.
Thank you for your help and know that I'm thinking of you from afar - it must be freezing down there now.