Whew! Three sessions down and I have yet to smell a crispy piece of me or feel a burning sensation inside my body. The radiation team seems to be everything I could have asked for and more. They all have been briefed by my terrible phobia issues and working there away around it with me.
I do not delude myself, though. I know these are the first...and last...good days of this extremely valuable part of killing of my cancer. So, I am am absorbing the joy of not having any pain or nausea at this time which frees me to smile a bit and dig out of some depression that has been holding me back. I am finally able to eat some real food so we are working to stuff as much of that down as we can before mid-next week. Next week brings back the long day of chem infusion into my body to work with the radiation. So nausea is once again just around the corner.
Somewhere out there in the next week and a half or so will bring new side effects from radiation that I have no experience with. All the nurses and doctors have gone to great lengths to describe what is coming and what I should do each and every moment of the coming many weeks. Lieska has received a lot of discussion from them as well knowing that her role will be incredibly essential for me to have a chance at this.
It does feel like I am at arguably some sort of a half way point of all this touch treatment. Supposedly, the tough half is about to unfold. I think I will pretend I do not know that :)
