Met my Dr. for radiology, she's very nice and positive and sweet and knows what she's doing. I have no reason not to like her, and I do like her as a person. As a Dr. I don't like her at all because she told me that I have 28 treatments. As you know, you can't just jump into treatments, you have 1000 things leading up to the treatments.
I'd like to take the Dick Bath (not a joke, my Dad) approach. I'd like to say "Give me an F" and you can figure out the rest.........and tell them NO NO NO NO NO I am not doing anything else. Thank goodness I can be rebellious on here, because I am feeling very ECT tonight. I am feeling very "I am NOT going to do anything else, go to hell" but smiling of course, that giant Garfield smile.
When the Dr. was talking today at one point all I heard was "blahblahblahblah" and all I could smell was the hospital smell, that is a terrible smell, and I get to smell it 28 times. But you know it will be more than 28 times, it will be 30 plus times because you know something will happen, it will be some president's very important day off and all offices will be closed or the roads will flood or someone's beloved will pass or their dog ate their homework, some crap.
My friend who went through this two years ago said her "brain just hurt" from all the overload of information, I get that, my brain is starting to hurt.......
They say venting doesn't really help..................... whatever!!
You are right--you do kind of have to prepare for the "not quite 28 in a row." The machines are temperamental and sometimes they stop working and you have to skip a day, or come back later in the day. BTW, I had 28 and then 5 "boosts" (directed just to the spot the cancer used to be). Do you have 5 "boosts" after the 28?
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, for me, radiation was much, much easier than chemo. (How can it not be!?!)