Friday. - Done, finished, complete, over, ….that’s it. I had my last radiotherapy zapping on Monday afternoon. Me and MLB are now starting to become ‘normal’ again.
The whole zapping experience was fine. I had, in a moment of boredom, read some forum entries on a breast cancer website which moaned on and on about how tired people felt and how painful their boobs were and how ghastly the whole process was. They must live on another planet. I have had no tiredness despite the travelling, no soreness, no broken skin, no burning sensation, and I wore a bra the whole time.
There were some funny moments. Normally you are allocated to one Linear Accelerator and its attached team – I was allocated LA6. One day however, I had to go to a different one as LA6 was having a routine service. So I found myself in a waiting area with loads of men in dressing gowns, no trousers but they were wearing shoes and socks….obviously the prostate cancer crowd. I was called in and sure enough it was an all male radiography team. They had me in hoots as they set up the table for a breast cancer zap and then took about 20 minutes to get me lined up as compared with my usual team who could do it in about 2 minutes. They got there in the end. They sheepishly admitted that they didn’t do breasts very often but hoped it was OK! Seemed all right to me.
During this time I had some golfing mates over for lunch and they bought me the most beautiful bunch of flowers. So lovely I have had to add a photo of them to this blog to say thank you.
Now the other news is……da da…My hair is growing!! Just a bit but it is starting to become obvious. Not enough for me to go wigless yet but I think in a couple of weeks I might experiment.
Other side effect news. My nails are a mess – including my toenails. I had a pedicure a couple of days ago and when the beautician took the old nail polish off two of the toenails were black. So we covered them up again rather quickly.
My left arm is now pretty much a normal size after the course of MLD and I wear the horrible compression sleeve for all activity but it comes off in the evening. So far so good.
Still a bit of tingling and numbness in my feet but this should disappear over the next few months.
So I’m looking forward to going to Spain for Xmas and New Year and just relaxing without having to face any more treatment or pill popping apart from the Arimidex which I will take for five years. Just like HRT or the pill. Not a difficult one.
As my strength is returning, so my golf is starting to get back to a reasonable form and I should become competitive again by spring – watch out all my golfing mates.
I’ll post the next blog after I get back from Spain, hopefully with news of massive hair growth etc. Until then have a fun festive season and happy new year.
The whole zapping experience was fine. I had, in a moment of boredom, read some forum entries on a breast cancer website which moaned on and on about how tired people felt and how painful their boobs were and how ghastly the whole process was. They must live on another planet. I have had no tiredness despite the travelling, no soreness, no broken skin, no burning sensation, and I wore a bra the whole time.
There were some funny moments. Normally you are allocated to one Linear Accelerator and its attached team – I was allocated LA6. One day however, I had to go to a different one as LA6 was having a routine service. So I found myself in a waiting area with loads of men in dressing gowns, no trousers but they were wearing shoes and socks….obviously the prostate cancer crowd. I was called in and sure enough it was an all male radiography team. They had me in hoots as they set up the table for a breast cancer zap and then took about 20 minutes to get me lined up as compared with my usual team who could do it in about 2 minutes. They got there in the end. They sheepishly admitted that they didn’t do breasts very often but hoped it was OK! Seemed all right to me.
During this time I had some golfing mates over for lunch and they bought me the most beautiful bunch of flowers. So lovely I have had to add a photo of them to this blog to say thank you.
Now the other news is……da da…My hair is growing!! Just a bit but it is starting to become obvious. Not enough for me to go wigless yet but I think in a couple of weeks I might experiment.
Other side effect news. My nails are a mess – including my toenails. I had a pedicure a couple of days ago and when the beautician took the old nail polish off two of the toenails were black. So we covered them up again rather quickly.
My left arm is now pretty much a normal size after the course of MLD and I wear the horrible compression sleeve for all activity but it comes off in the evening. So far so good.
Still a bit of tingling and numbness in my feet but this should disappear over the next few months.
So I’m looking forward to going to Spain for Xmas and New Year and just relaxing without having to face any more treatment or pill popping apart from the Arimidex which I will take for five years. Just like HRT or the pill. Not a difficult one.
As my strength is returning, so my golf is starting to get back to a reasonable form and I should become competitive again by spring – watch out all my golfing mates.
I’ll post the next blog after I get back from Spain, hopefully with news of massive hair growth etc. Until then have a fun festive season and happy new year.
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