Remember when I started this that I wanted to at least glow in the dark or have some super powers? No, still waiting… However, I must be developing some sort of super powers as I seem to be the only one seeing things that need picking up or tidied up.
We are now at one week’s worth of radiotherapy with gating technique. I have gotten quite good at this breathing thing so it is getting faster each time. Each session lasts around 15 mins. They have to stop and draw on you before each time they move the machine in a different position. I have 2 guys that do my radio all the time.
They are so sweet but they do have one huge flaw – cold hands! Now let me tell you, they are very young, around late 20s I guess, so I can make jokes with them easily. I did tell them the other day that working in this job they have you cannot simply turn up with cold hands. So I don’t know where they stick them but they need to warm their hands up. Moving on…the felt pen! Ok, they are drawing on me every day and every day I have to take a shower because the cream I put on after each session has to be taken off for the next one. The felt pen however…the green one comes off but the black and the blue ones not so easily. First world problems, I know. From the point of view of the skin, all good so far. I got given a cream to put on every day. I feel the area very hot straight after and it lasts a few hours. There is no pain or not much. My breast has gone a bit bigger, hotter and harder. (Extract from the 50 shades of radio)
The thing that tires me the most is the journey. The journey to radio is 1,5h each way. And yes, I am doing it every day. I am not the one driving luckily but nevertheless it is rather tiring. I sleep a lot and I amaze myself as I am not a big sleeper normally.
Did you know that if you get radiotherapy on an armpit with hair or hair in the proximity, this will make the hair disappear for good? Now this if useful, however I will end up with one hairy armpit and one bald one. Also, started to have a sore throat but I am told this is normal as they are radiating my lymph nodes in my chest/bottom throat area.
Always on a journey 
Your information about hair not growing back in the radio-ed area made me examine both my pits, as I had radio on my lymph glands too. At the moment both are equally hairless, but I await developments with interest. Oddly, I have one extremely hairy lower calf/ankle area, and one not!
They felt-tip-penned me every day too – but I was instructed not to shower AT ALL in that area. I gave myself a wipe with a flannel, but otherwise nothing was allowed. So I went creamless until the end. It was only the last two weeks that became painful for me. The first full shower afterwards was lovely!!
1.5 hours journey is l-o-n-g! Poor you. I had 30 minutes and that was bad enough. I got to know some of the drivers quite well – sometimes when I saw who I had my heart sank. They were the ones who drove at breakneck speed, while texting and drinking water and steeriung with their knees! Others were a bit too chatty! Wishing you well.
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