Hi again. Just checking in again now that I'm almost through treatments. All the chemo is done (finished yesterday), and the RADS will be done Friday.

It has been quite a trip. The radiation side effects kicked in a couple weeks back and I had to cut back quite a bit at work. Finally last week I gave up on that entirely and don't plan a return until two weeks post-treatment. The fatigue was just getting too much. Also due to RADS I've been doing tube feeding exclusively for almost 2 weeks. Thanks to everyone who helped me reach the decision to have the PEG inserted before getting into these treatments -- I can't imagine how I could have withstood that otherwise.

On the activity front, I guess I've just been - as a dog-owning friend put it - "sitting in my cave and licking my paws". Not that anything has happened to me that I haven't read about on others' posts here. I've grown a new appreciation though for how tough this is and how strong you all are. Thanks for that bit of inspiration.

Now that I'm on the cusp of being post-treatment, I have tried to start mentally transitioning myself to play the waiting game again. Treatments are pretty much a full-time job, and as strange as it sounds I had lost sight of being a cancer patient and started to think of myself as being a cancer treatment patient. Part of this was being focused on the one-day-at-a-time nature of just getting through things, and part to not getting attached to things outside my control. So now I'm facing a reversal of that starting this weekend which may take some getting used-to. Not that I will mind at all being through treatments!