Barbara,

My mom's name is Barbara too...and she was pretty beat up by week 2. We often wondered how she would make it through the entire 6 weeks but she endured it and never missed a day. Some days she would wait hours for the machine to be fixed but she swore she would not drag it out any longer than the 6 weeks she was told she would need. Her neck swelled a couple days and she had really bad burns. She resorted to the pain patches and I think she was up to wearing 3 or 4 at a time to tolerate the pain. If you are experiencing pain you should speak to you doctors about meds to manage the pain. Your over the halfway mark and thats when we started looking at it as a countdown. Hang in there. My prayers are with you.

Dani