August 21Aug 21 Very happy to hear that there are no negative reactions! 👍 Hopefully it will stay that way! 🤞
Wednesday at 04:06 PM1 day Author Had my 5th radiation treatment Monday about mid-afternoon. Experienced another sudden spell of extreme exhaustion Monday evening around 7:30 or 8:00 PM. It seemed worse than the first one and lasted longer.Was still very lethargic all day Tuesday so basically did nothing other than I had to cut the back lawn yesterday afternoon. That normally takes me about a 1/2 hour but took almost an hour yesterday cuz I had to stop and rest a couple of times before I could finish it. Taking it easy today as well as I have my 6th & 2nd last radiation treatment tomorrow. I have an appointment to speak with the oncology doctor tomorrow right after my rad. session. Not sure what the discussion will be about but hoping for some kind of indication about how the treatments are going. I'm pretty sure they can see something about what's going on when they do the treatments? We'll see tomorrow. Hope I don't get whacked again later tomorrow with another spell of exhaustion but even if I do, at least that'll be the sencond last treatmenrt so I'm getting to the end of this process 🙂
Wednesday at 04:45 PM1 day Sorry that you had a reaction again Reci. Thankfully you are almost done! Thinking positive thoughts for you that all will be ok!!☺️
Wednesday at 05:07 PM1 day Glad you are on the countdown to being done @Reciprocity.Hang in there. The fatigue side-effects are no joke, but they are thankfully transient. Hope you get the spring back in your step soon!
6 hours ago6 hr Author Had my 6th radiartion session today. Only 1 left next Monday. No terrible effects so far tonight, although I still feel a little dozier than normal from session 5.I was pretty disappointed though with my meeting with the Oncology Doc after my session today. I thought he would give me some sort of indication on how things were going but Nope! He wasn't willing to say anything basically when I asked him how things were looking. He simply said that after the radiation treatments stop, the radiation keeps working in your body for up to 3 months afterward so he will schedule a CT Scan for around 3 months from now and then we will have a telephone meting to reviw the results of what he sees on that CT Scan. He did say that he hopes to see a blackened nodule with a bit of lung tissue scarring around it. ie: he would consider that a successful killing of the cancerous tissue. He also warned me that at some point in that 3 month period I may develope a persistant cough and if that happens I should call him (his office) and he will perscribe a 10 day regime of Prednisone that should take care of that. Great! Something else to watch out for 🙄 I asked him how I would know it wasn't just a cold due to the changing seasons as that can be a real issue going into autumn. He said ..."You'll know!" Oh my, that sounds ominous😶 I'll just hope I don't have to find out!
6 hours ago6 hr And have to wait again Reci.At least the treatments will be done and you made it through unscathed.
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