Comments | cynnalia: Decisions, decisions

cynnalia

Decisions, decisions

Mar 08, 2010 16:30

I met with the radiation oncologist on Friday to discuss the possibility of radiation treatment to mop up any lingering cancer cells, if there are any. He showed me my PET scans and went over the fields he wanted to target and told me what the possible side effects were ( Read more... )

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selinafenech March 9 2010, 22:53:50 UTC

Not sure what advice to give you there, it's a tough one! For me, well, there wasn't really a decision, it was basically the normal course of action and came highly recommended. And like I've said, I haven't (yet) had any bad side affects from it, apart from the minor ones (tenderness, "sunburn"). It was pretty easy, but also I'm guessing a smaller area treated too. I've also heard some people can have really bad reactions to it. Sorry I'm not much help there! All I can say is that for me it felt easy, and I just forget/deny the existence of the chance of any of my treatments doing anything bad in the future, lol. I'm WAY into the denial these days ^_^

cynnalia March 10 2010, 21:26:26 UTC

lol I totally hear ya! It's impossible for me not to fret about possible side effects down the road, but if I didn't do this, and I relapsed, I'd be kicking myself for not doing rads. Besides, I'm hoping that IF something happened 20-30 years down the line that medical advances would help make it less of an ordeal. I'm doing the rads and not gonna think about "what ifs" - they'll drive you crazy if you let them!

selinafenech March 10 2010, 21:55:25 UTC

That's exactly what I keep thinking myself as well, that IF I were to have to go through this again, it would be different, hopefully much easier, they are making so many advancements so quickly these days!

If nothing else, the radiotherapy is kinda cool- you get to feel all sci-fi and stuff! It's pretty incredible with all the laser beams and huge machines! Well, I was impressed at least! ^_^

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cynnalia March 11 2010, 23:58:39 UTC

*HUGS* I've decided to do the radiation...I'm not happy to do it, but when I start thinking about NOT doing it, I can't stop thinking about "what if I relapse". At least doing it allows me to feel like I fought as hard as I could to beat this the first time.