Wow, it's interesting how much I dislike Radiation. It really sucks big time. It's te constant fatigue, the pain (yes there is pain involved with Radiation), and the back and forth to the hospital that is most annoying. Everyday, aside from the weekends, I go to radiation and for a total of 5 minutes but, those 5 mins take it out of me, about 3 mintues after I recieve radiation I'm exhausted. I struggle everyday to stay awake and seriously when I wake up every morning that is the time that I'm the most awake for my ENTIRE day. Which lately I've been waking up later and later everyday so really I am only awake for MAYBE 1/2 an hour to an hour everyday. The rest of the day I just want to sleep. When I get home from radiation I normally feel the most tired out of my day. SO, I try to sleep a little when I get home from Radiation which is tedious because I have so much to do right before school that I struggle keeping up with my homework right now.
So in a very strange an parcular way radiation is more taxing on my than Chemo. Even though Chemo was harder on my body atleast it was only once every three weeks and gave me time to recover where as Radiation I have to have everyday and only have the weekend to recover. Not sure if that makes sense.
With the radiation there are sores that are involved. These sores are in the most inconvient places imaginable. Under my breast and in the crease. So bras are incredibly uncomfortable no matter what I wear (sports, underwire, non underwire) anything that touches or straps down my breast hurts. the best way I can describe the pain is like having a bee sting that won't go away. It's constant. You can't put anything on it unless the doctor prescribes it or gives it to you otherwise it causes more problems or makes it worse. Can't bandage it cause it hurts even more or makes it itchy. So what do you do when this happens? Nothing really just deal with the pain, keep it clean, and that's about all you can do.
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