Radiation Consultation...

Friday was a long day. John and I went to my Radiation Consultation at 9:00 and although I was very nervous about getting started, it ended up not being so bad after all. It took a couple hours to position me exactly on the table where it wouldn't hurt (with wedges underneath my knees) and my arms positioned above my head holding onto a bar before we finally got the right angles. When everything was all aligned perfectly, the technician marked my skin with a sharpie and then followed it up with a small tattoo! I had heard somebody mention that they would tattoo my skin, but it still came as quite a shock for some reason. She ended up tattooing a spot on my stomach and one on both hips. Although they're planning to do radiation to my spinal area, they apparently go through the front and sides of me to get there. There is a very, very slim chance that my organs will be damaged as a result of radiation, but that is always a risk. I guess when you're in a position like this with cancer, the good outweighs the bad by far. When they're actually performing the radiation, a large arm of the machine will go underneath the table to zap my back. I'm very curious about all of this. I'm sort of lucky that my radiation is only 2 weeks (because we're zapping the spine & not the breast) because usually radiation to the breast is 6 weeks :(

During this process they naturally asked me lots of questions and one of them was when I started on chemotherapy and after giving it some thought, it was exactly one year ago to the day! Isn't that odd?! To start Radiation on the same day a year later sure makes it easy to remember!

That afternoon, I went for my last chemotherapy (for a few weeks). This marks chemo #39 and after the radiation Dr. Hui will determine whether or not we'll be returning to the Gemzar or starting on a new chemo. This chemo has been very easy on me. The only thing that I'm suffering with right now are my sinuses. However, with a little over the counter medicine, I'm good to go :)

I wish you all LOVE, PEACE, and HAPPINESS today!! ♥ Love, Genie