The big three are done

Surgery - tick
Chemotherapy - tick
Radiation - tick

I feel like I've got off lightly, I'm really lucky that I haven't had any nasty side effects. I've pretty much sailed through everything thrown at me so far (and I've got my fingers crossed as I'm typing this, how awesome am I!) My pink boob is now starting to itch so I'm armed with a prescription for hydrocortisone cream to deal with that if it gets worse

The next step is Herceptin tomorrow and continuing every 3 weeks for about another 7 months. I also have my Oncologist specialist appointment on Monday morning and that will be to talk about what on going drug I'll need to take for 5 years.

I'm told to allow 3 weeks to recover from my radiation treatment and that people usually get hit with side effects afterwards. I am taking a week's sick leave and even if physically I'm ok, I really need this time psychologically. I'm still standing, and my hair has started to grow back, but my eyelashes have now fallen out and most of my eyebrows too, my eyes have those dark "chemo circles" underneath and some of my toenails are purple. I just want the world to stop for a bit, crawl into my cave and hibernate for a little while.

On a lighter note, back by popular demand, another one of my fabulous drawings. I'm attempting to show how many machines have been around me during radiation. Once they zapped me to the right of my boob from behind, the machines rotated around and then I got zapped from the left to target the other side of the same boob. When it got to that side the machine that did the actual zapping was closer to my face, and I could see the whole thing. A bit off putting and I tried to think of anything I could to distract me from thinking about all the things that could go wrong.

One of the radiation techs looks very like David Walliams the British comedian who is also a judge on Xfactor.  When his double was on duty I usually ended up thinking that I was a contestant on Xfactor and David was about to hit the golden buzzer for my incredible talent at lying still....and then I had to stop myself from laughing. 

What they don't tell you in the leaflet is that you could bite through your tongue to stop yourself laughing, because it's impossible to laugh without moving your body.  I should write the leaflets eh!

My view during radiation

She's got my vote