BronB's Radiotherapy Journey - treatment to the Salivary Gland

I have been thinking more and more recently that I never really wrote about my preparation for Radiotherapy Treatment. It might be useful to other people reading the blog and so I am going to add it now.

In the run up to treatment starting .......

I tried to look after myself with a good diet and exercise. Having recently recovered from surgery I was keen to try and keep some level of fitness as I had been training…

Good news today - my double vision (and MS relapse and nothing to do with RT) seems to have corrected itself. I have left the prisms on my specs and started wearing my old pair so I can ensure the correction is a permanent feature, because often my MS does this and then slips again before correcting.

In terms of my treatment .... I am trying to sleep after treatment each day and the fatigue has been a little better these…

Last time I wrote about my issue with constipation and I didn't write until today because this blog post might have ended up being about nothing more.

However, following a brief meeting with the on-call doctor on Wednesday and a prescription for Movicol (and also 14!!!! enemas just in case) some movement has happened - woohoo - it's these little but important things that are the focus at the moment. I have stopped…

I'm going to keep this brief because I need to get on with a small physical project 😳 Yesterday was clinic day so I met with my assigned Radiographer and my Oncologist. Onc has spoken with my neurologist, who enlightened him re Multiple Sclerosis. We are fine to continue though I have been advised to lower my Vit D to 4000 IU each day (from 6000). The Neurologist also suggested I see him once in have finished treatment…

This weekend (after session 15) was hard. We went to friends for dinner on Saturday night - a well-planned mid-treatment evening with two really supportive couples who are really helping. The meal itself was perfect .... Nutritionally balanced and able to cool down to toddler temperature (goats cheese tart, salmon fillet with lovely veg, mascarpone ice cream). The friends hosting had bought several different types…