Update: Approaching the Halfway with Radiation

Today was my weekly visit with the doctor.  My blood work was very good, the other things he checks with x-rays, etc concerning the radiation are good, the nurse said that my skin is doing really well for being close to the end of the 3rd week of the radiation treatments.  So all is going really well.  

I asked Dr MacCallister if I would be feeling tired from the radiation treatments ( It seems that several of the things I have asked about they say the radiation shouldn't be causing that.).  He said yes, I would be feeling more tired from them in the 3rd week.  (14 treatments done, 19 more to go.) He explained that they are doing a lot of damage right now.  When I get the treatment each day, it builds up and continues to work for a couple of weeks,  However, in the next couple of weeks, healing will begin to take place too.  By the time I am at the end of the treatments, there will be more healing than tearing down,  So I could feel really tired after treatments are over for a couple of weeks, but I probably won't.  After the radiation is over, I should begin to feel better pretty quickly.

The lymphedema has been bothering me more the last week,  Not in my arm but in my side.  I still haven't gotten the sleeve that was ordered a couple of weeks ago, so I have to go 3 times a week for treatment and wrapping so that it will stay down.  It is supposed to come next week.

I am not feeling sick like I did with the chemo, but I am really tired and have been fighting feeling discouraged at times.  Those are the times I remember how bad I felt with the chemo and remind myself that I am still sick and "this too shall pass,"  Things are really going very well.