Radiation Update

I am more than half way through radiation!  I can't wait for this to be over.  It seems in many ways to be a bigger burden than the chemo.  First, it's daily.  Second, the fatigue is incredible.  And here I am complaining and I really shouldn't:  I've had no bad burns; my skin has not opened into oozing sores; I can still wear clothes.  I have five sessions this week and three the following week and I'm done!

At some point - likely next week - I'll have to go and see Dr Genest.  He is available every Tuesday morning in the radiation lab, but I can't imagine what I'd say to him - so I haven't gone.  I already know the areas that are being radiated.  I know why my throat is so sore that they've cautioned me to be careful about food that is too spicy, too hot or too cold.  I know why my daughter and friends have to keep drawing on me with sharpies.  I know why my arm sometimes hurts and I know why I'm so tired.  Unless the symptoms worsen alot, I'm good.  I'll leave his time free for others, but I feel like I should put in at least one appearance.

My hair is growing back really quickly.  Now when people see me who don't know me I can see them wondering whether I had cancer or whether I really like really short hair.  It's a subtle difference in the face and the eyes but it's a difference and I've found that I really like people not knowing.  I also really like this short hair.  It doesn't show up well in photos but it's sort of a greyish brown and it's soft like a baby's hair.  I keep trying to get it to grow back away from my face but it won't:  it grows from the back forward.  If I had a crown of leaves I could be an ancient Roman.  Mom says that I have curly-qs at the back of my head but I can't see them. 

I actually shaved my legs last week for the first time in about five months.  I knew I was way out of practice when the next day I found a fine strip of long hair right down the middle of my shin:)  It reminded me of Logan at a younger age mowing the lawn - when he said he was done there were all kinds of spots with noticably longer grass.