Feb 3, 2011

Over half-way done with radiation and so far so good. Relatively speaking radiation doesn't even hold a candle to chemo. I have been fatigued, mostly in the evening and more so towards the end of the week, like today. My skin is holding up pretty well with some mild burning, but nothing that is really bothering me. My joints are telling me that I'm like 80 when I'm only 42. Feeling good in all ways otherwise. Oh, yeah, hot flashes. Got em now. Chemo put me into a possibly temporary menopause. Saw my oncologist today for a check up and she said this happens about 50% of the time in pre-menopausal woman. Hormone therapy is next. I will start that a week or two after radiation is complete, and that will go for five years. Feels like the end and in a way it is, in three weeks I will be done with radiation and move to just taking a couple of pills every day and checking up with the doctor every four months. My hair is slowly beginning to cover my head, it's a little fuzzy currently, and in a few months I will have to start styling it again. One kinda nice thing through all of this is that I have saved a ton of time washing, drying, and styling my hair. I can go from my bed to showered and out the door in like fifteen minutes. How many other women can say that?