Radiation Update: FINISHED!

See those unicorn and rainbow cookies?!  Those are to celebrate being finished with radiation treatments! (Thank you Kantrowitz family.)

I wish I felt like a celebration. But I’m told that the effects of radiation are delayed so much that my skin will continue to get worse (and I assume also the fatigue) for another 7-10 days before I turn the corner and start healing. I’m already miserable, so I don’t look forward to what I’ll feel like a week from now.

My skin is peeling and raw. I’m using a variety of creams but the main one is silver sulfaziadine (Silvadene). I learned today that aloe and broken raw skin are not a good combo - at least not for me. Stings and burns so badly that I cried! Boo! I’m reapplying creams a few times per day, covering with gauze and the softest gentlest bras or tank tops I can find. I’ve been taking at least one but often two naps per day. 

I am so ready to be done and to go for a run. Soon. 

In about two weeks, I get my first Lupron shot.  Yay.