My Last Radiation Treatment Today

This morning I will go in for my last radiation treatment. Today my active treatment stops and I can stop having daily interactions with doctors. I’ve found the radiation more taxing than the chemo in a lot of ways. At least with chemo I was able to plan: there were days I was tired and days I wasn’t; if I took my medicine “on time” I didn’t get sick; I napped between noon and three and was able to function. The radiation has been much different. There are days when my breast and/or my chest aches. There are days when every time I move the fabric against my skin sends searing pain through me. And the exhaustion with the radiation is far greater than what I experienced with the chemo. Instead of needing a few days of down time, it seems like the days that I’m flat on my butt never end. The way I hear it it’ll take a good bit of time before I feel like myself again. I think I can wait for the fatigue to end, but I’ll be very excited to not have the burning pain anymore. Luckily that’ll end pretty quickly.