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I finished the radiotherapy on my back by Friday, and came home on Saturday. The r/t doesn't seem to have affected me, really. I felt sick on the first day, and fatigued of course, but otherwise it went off without a hitch. I expected the promised side-effects to kick in from the weekend onwards, but so far nothing at all, not even sore skin. Maybe this is because I religiously slather on the radiance gel, which is mostly aloe vera.
I've been thinking a lot about pain over the last week or so...
Into the final week. This seemed so far away at the start I can't believe I'm here now.
Had the consultant meeting yesterday and although if lost a tiny bit more weight she said overall she was very pleased with how I've done on the food/weight front and that it's brilliant that I've got through it without a peg. I'm am being moved onto the more concentrated Ensures today though because I'm really loosing the enthusiasm to eat at the moment.
Consultant thinks I must...
As I lie here awake having had my 2am Oramorph dose I've been thinking through how I've been feeling over the weekend and trying to understand/ deal with things a little better.
First of all I think I've been a bit in mourning for pre diagnosis me. I watched a video of a holiday with friends and it quite upset me to think ill never be that person again. Partly I suppose physically things will have changed ( and I know over time it should all be less noticeable) but also mentally, I'm always...
I've not been blogging as much this week because there hasn't really been much to add. Things have stayed pretty much the same. The saliva has become thicker, but not really thick and I've found swills with the salt water and then later the carhopsol seems to give some relief from it.
Denplan have paid out on the private prescription I had for that so that's fab.
I'm still doing 5ml of oramorph about every 4 hours which seems to do the trick. Because I've been into work 3 days this...
