Radiation started

My first day meeting with the radiologist and preparing me for radiation treatment.

I've had three rounds of Radiation so far and I can say that it's kinda blah. Like Oh, That was it?!

I first started out by going through a simulator which is a two day process. I am first scanned and then marked up by tattooing my body. They do this so that I can shower and not have to repeat the hole process over and over again. The pin in inserted into my skin and then she poured ink on the areas leaving a tiny pin needle tattoo. I've seen the same tattoo larger and in a shape of a cross over the breast on the chest. I guess I'm lucky that I didn't have to deal with that. One of the nurses mentioned that they didn't tattoo like that cause I liked wearing lower shirts. I thought that was rather sweet of them.

The nurses are nice and sweet, they rack me up everytime I go, I suppose it's the Chicagoan banter that I enjoy the most. It's just nice to be able to joke around the way we do. the hardest part of Radiation is the EVERYDAY. the constant going to Radiation every day and it's only for 10 mins at most and it seems like it's a waste of time.

I do have some skin irriation right now and there is muscle pain but the radiation people are saying it's not because of the radiation however, the nurses from the hospital is telling me that it could be and I should talk to the radiologist. Well, I suppose I'll wait and see.

Thursday I had what everyone in calling Chemo...but found out it's called Biotherapy. Why is it called bio therapy instead of Chemo? Well Chemo is basically anything chemical being pumped into your body for medical reasons. So technically it is chemo however, it's a biological reasons is to alter my hormones and block it from my cells as opposed to killing my cells.