Day #14 14 Down and 21 To Go

Day #14 January 11,2010 Monday
Two days away from RT is a nice break. Last week was my first full 5 day week of RT. The weekend was kind of an up and down couple of days. Two things keep giving me trouble. I am producing so much thick mucus that it really scares me sometimes. It scares me because, all of a sudden you go to breathe in through your mouth and you can't! You don't realize that you are breathing through you nose and the mucus just builds up. As I had noted before, the reason the mucus is so think is that the pores that produce thin water for your mouth have all been affected by the radiation. I was warned , now I just need to be prepared. I was able to drink a few more things this weekend. I had water, soda pop, ensure and strawberry milk. The other thing is that I am trying to get more rest and sleep at might. I think we have that all worked out. We will see tonight. I am getting to the point where I can drink water everyday. This makes me so happy. Water Rules!!! The RT is really never a problem. People ask me " Who did you treatment go today?" Well, the truth is that , I lie on the table and 15-20 minutes later they say, "Okay, your done". I kind of laugh within myself thinking. Who knows if they even turned the darn machine on today. That is the good thing about the RT. You feel nothing while you are getting your treatment. Unlike Chemo where you get sick and you wish you were dead sometimes during treatment. I am so lucky that I am only having RT at this time. My skin seems to be having some type of a reaction to the treatment. It is really dry and I use several types of skin treatments to help the cause. I was looking at the numbers and realized that I have 4 more treatments until the half way point! Wow half way through! That will be exciting to me. Just a little FYI- Kari is doing fine with her left hand today. She had the carpal tunnel surgery on Friday and it s amazing how quick people heal from things like that. She has knocked her hand a few times, which does create a little scream, but for the most part she is a champ. In 2 weeks she will have the right hand done. My little angel is only slightly wounded as she has not lost aa step in taking care of me.
Well it's Monday so I better save some of my writing for the rest of the week. Thanks for reading and caring about my RT.
I almost forgot- 14 Do and 21 To Go.