Feel like quitting rads

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  • percy4
    percy4 Member Posts: 477
    edited February 2014

    Just an update, ladies.  While I did feel like quitting rads, I know I wouldn't really have done that, after starting.  I did, however, need to hear the encouragement to get through it, and the stories of how all of you felt, going through it.  It helped immensely.  So.  13 down, 7 to go.  3 more regular, and the last 4 localized boosts.  I'm getting some of the itchy red bumps, and the "tanning" (though the nurse says my skin is holding up really well; probably luck combined with staying on top of moisturizing and stretching), a bit of fatique here and there in this third week, but OK.  The radiation Cancer Center, while it IS "cancer in your face" everyday, is also really validating as one is there with people who are like you, in person.  It is also really humbling, for me, as many have higher staged cancers than I do.  A few, not.  Interesting swapping stories about the VERY different approaches offered by different docs for the same things.  Even within my area of my HMO.  I spoke with a woman who, like me, biopsied positive for low-grade DCIS, then found a non-aggressive micro upon lumpectomy.  Her original MO advised chemo (very strange).  She switched to another, in our same HMO, who said "Of course not".  Makes you wonder, really.  That's why I like to talk to a few docs, and ask here, and research as best I can, then decide.  Anyway; once I accepted rads, the experience has been unique and basically good.  I won't forget the interactions I've had there.

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 57,235
    edited February 2014

    Glad you are on the count down to the finish line!

  • Ariom
    Ariom Member Posts: 6,197
    edited February 2014

    Well done Percy! I wish you all the very best and hope the rest goes really fast for you!

  • gtgirl
    gtgirl Member Posts: 129
    edited March 2014

    Ariom, I have learned that until someone else walks in my shoes and hears the words "you have breast cancer", then they can keep there comments to themselves.  I get why didn't you have reconstruction or will you? My pink sisters don't ask that, it's the other people.  I don't judge anyone of us as to what decision they make.  This is the biggest decision and a very hard one for most of us.  I also have thought over the past few months why I didn't do my other, but I know why I didn't.  I now go back and forth.  I have to recover from my UMX first as Beesie said.  One day at a time.  This is a journey and we all deal with it different.  As you, I did not want rads.

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