End of Chemo - awakening!
Hi everyone, I finished 6 months chemo on 17th Jan & while everyone around me was celebrating I still felt numb. Luckily I was offered a friends holiday house for 2 weeks between chemo & radiation. ...
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Now Radiation Burns & dressings - who said it was easy ?
Thanks all for your lovely comments & advice on holiday houses that are free (I have heard of the Otis houses as my daughter & her family went to one a few years ago).
However it was difficult to go back into treatment after such a lovely break. Daily radiation trips were a trial & by week 5 the burns were becoming a problem. I hadn't realised how much worse they would get in the week following my last treatment so I wasn't prepared to be going back to the hospital for another 3 weeks after my last radiation. I have felt flat & sore & sorry for myself because I can't wear a bra & once again my right boob is hanging in the wind ! And oh the tiredness !
I found Metipel dressings with Solugel worked well except for the curvy part under my armpit where nothing would stay put. Now the burnt skin's almost completely peeled back to new pink skin underneath I'm using QV Intensive all day every day to keep it soft & stop that scratch stretching feeling. I'm feeling so much worse in myself that after chemo & I'm wondering if that's a common problem with other ladies ?
Thanks all for your lovely comments & advice on holiday houses that are free (I have heard of the Otis houses as my daughter & her family went to one a few years ago).
However it was difficult to go back into treatment after such a lovely break. Daily radiation trips were a trial & by week 5 the burns were becoming a problem. I hadn't realised how much worse they would get in the week following my last treatment so I wasn't prepared to be going back to the hospital for another 3 weeks after my last radiation. I have felt flat & sore & sorry for myself because I can't wear a bra & once again my right boob is hanging in the wind ! And oh the tiredness !
I found Metipel dressings with Solugel worked well except for the curvy part under my armpit where nothing would stay put. Now the burnt skin's almost completely peeled back to new pink skin underneath I'm using QV Intensive all day every day to keep it soft & stop that scratch stretching feeling. I'm feeling so much worse in myself that after chemo & I'm wondering if that's a common problem with other ladies ?