Almost made it.....

I almost made it to the end of radiation treatment without any issues. As of Friday evening I had 6 radiaiont treatments left and Friday night I woke up in the middle of the night because a spot under my left arm hurt. Not having my contacts in and not wanting to turn on a bright light in the middle of the night I didn't look too close and didn't think it was too much so I went back to bed. In the morning I woke with that spot hurting more and my pajamas stuck to it. So needless to say when I tried to remove my jamies from my side I riped off skin. So I have an open, area approx 1 inch wide and 4 inches long under my arm pit where the expanders meet my chest wall. Now this is not skinless mind you but more like a burn and feels like one also. The Dr has given me some gunky lotion stuff with silver in it that is suppose to be really good on burns. That does make it feel better but I cannot wear any good shirts because it will ruin them.

Today (Tuesday) they started to narrow the radiation beem to focus on the spot were the cancer was. They will do this for the remaining 5 days. Prevoiusly they were radiating the entire breast into my left arm pit. This narrowing will help the "burn" area to heal without having to worry about having it radiated.

I still consider myself lucky to have so few issues with this process to date. And I guess it is lucky that I am a right side sleeper :)

Light At The End Of The Tunnel

I am done with 19 of 30 radiation treatments, yahoo!! The area has become red and splotchy and in the last couple days become itchy.
This is still a much easier process than the hard chemo. I am still going in every 3 weeks for the Herceptin infusion and on those days I get really tired. The weeks that I do not have the infusion I usually get tired by the end of the week and need a nap.

This past week has been difficult with all 4 of us getting sick with colds. We are just now getting to the end of it.

I look out my kitchen window and without snow it makes me itchy to go work in the garden. I can't wait until I can do that! I have so many ideas for it this year! I hope the weather is nice this spring so I can start early.