The Last One

Friday, September 7, 2012

Well, it really as the last one, and Jim of course wanted to bring my mask on home. My gut feeling is to burn it. I don't want to keep it around forever, but my dear husband has friends that will dearly love to really get some good looks at it, which Jim to explain where the first markings were, and where the did the 2nd and 3rd boosts.

I am just very very thankful that this mask sitting here in my hallway means I really have finished the last radiation treatment. 

I feel weepy, exhausted, relieved, unbelieving. I feel like I would like to sleep for two weeks. 

After that week in the hospital with no radiation, I was already starting to think I felt changes for the better in radiation side effects. I'm hoping I can tell a difference with all the steroids and extra meds they are giving me for chemo during that week. 

I truly hope that this is the hardest things physically I ever have to do in m life. 

And even if as they say, really, I'm only half done, surely , the half going up, the recovery part, will be more encouraging. 

I think I'll celebrate by having a nap.

September 7, 2022 -- I don't remember having any radiation at all while I was in the hospital but Jim says I went by ambulance the first hospital stay to the cancer center. Now that I think of it I have a vague memory of being taken into the cancer center in a wheel chair. Jim said it happened both ways.  I must not have been very "with it" when I was in the hospital. 

8 comments:

Brenda said...

I am so happy for you!!!

September 7, 2012 at 10:40 AM

John and Sandy Linder said...

Nap on!

September 7, at 2:48 PM

Anita said...

Yay yay yay!!!

so glad you could say good-by to the radiation mask!!

All the best!!!xo

September 7,2012 at 4:09 PM

Renee said...

I hope your nap was the sweetest one you have ever had. What a feeling to know that part is behind you. I am so thankful for you!

September 7, 2012 at 10:12 PM

Anonymous said...

Thanks for your sweet spirit. Our days have been enriched with sweet fellowship at a very special place, close to where you live. 

-A soft heart might get hurt, but never offended.

-Love = Time. When we love someone, we are willing to spend time with them.

- We want to live in a way that is conducive to the spirit of Christ of which comparing ourselves is not profitable in any way, shape, or form. 

June

September 9, 2012 at 10:38 AM

The J's said...

I hope for you it is the hardest things physically you ever have do do , and yay, yay, yay for it being over!!! You DID it!

Missed you and thought about you so much these last days!

September 9, 2012 at 10:50 AM

Ruth said...

That looks like a good thing to toss on the bonfire...toast some marshmallows and make smores to celebrate the end of radiation. Hope every day is a better day. Hugs!

September 10, 2012 at 10:50 AM

Anonymous said...

I too, hope that is the worst things physically that you'll ever have to face! The things you've been "enduring" sound awful and it makes me cry for you. I'm so glad thought, that you are being such a great example of taking all of this with such a good attitude and spirit. I don't know you all that well, but following your blog, during this, has make me realize how special you are in sharing your experiences with us, and doing it in such a "matter-of-fact" way with some humor added in! It's great that you're as far as you are and I hope the rest of it will not be as hard as what you've already gone through.

Please know that we care!

Barb K.

September 111, 2012 at 2:28 PM