My visit at the Cross today. Met with the Rad Onc at 10:30 and was told that he would go ahead with one more batch of radiation to stop the bleeding from the original tumor site once more. Said it's better to fix it while it's a small leak rather than try to fix it when the tap has broken right off. Due to the radiation having to come really close to the spine, he will not be able to do any more in that area after this. Does not want to damage the spinal cord. He did give me a high dose and said the side effects will be worse than the last batch I had done. Fatigue, skin burns, pain, coughing, but it should all subside in 5 days or so.
The other concern I had was the two lumps of cancer that have been growing on my left rib in two places. Very sore to the touch and makes it hard to even have clothes on by the one lump. He will be able to zap those away which will happen on Tuesday. The machine he needed to use wasn't available today otherwise it would of been done at the same time. Good news there. I'll be so glad to have those gone as they have been a major part of the pain for sure.
Had a terrible night last night. Was up all night again, taking breakthrough meds almost every hour until 4 am. By then I was finally able to get to sleep and slept until 6, then until 9 when my sister came to take me for my appointment.
The day went pretty well however. I even made a trip shopping with my sister after the Cross visit. Been a month since I've been in a store! Aaaaa the simple things we take for granted. :-)
I bought new dishes! hehehehehe
Let's pray tonight is a better night. Still feeling like the morphine is better than the oxycodone was doing.
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