FOUR weeks down of double rads plus chemo.

Kind of seeing the light at the end of the tunnel now.

The good news.....

1. Still never have had ANY issues with nausea...knock on wood
2. Still never have had ANY issues with pain...knock on wood
3. The past week they really cut down the 'field' of radiation and now the treatment is only taking about 8 minutes. Guess this is really good sign things are finally winding down.
4. Swallowing function seems as good now as when I started. Too bad food taste so bad I can't use it more.
5. Been able to make the 60 mile round trip drives no problem for treatments.

The bad news (which ain't that bad)....

1. The past couple days I feel like I've been hit with a Mack Truck. The 'fatigue' card is being played now and I'm really getting tired of being tired.
2. Any solid food still tastes SO BAD I just don't even want to even attemp it. I'm doing this without a peg and the Scandishakes are working out just fine.
3. My face/neck/back of neck has that three-tone look now (places where radiation never hit, places where new skin is coming thru, places where it's pretty burned and will be soon. A bit of a nusance...but not too bad I guess. No real pain to speak of yet.

The way I look at it....I've had a few goals thru this....

1. To finally get treatments started (it seemed like it took forever).
2. To make it THRU the treatments with as few complications and bad side effects as possible.
3. To reach that mystical 'low' point which is supposed to be about 2-4 weeks AFTER treatments.
4. To begin the 'healing' process and get my life back to normal.

With one more week of double stuff it will be TWO down and TWO to go.

Now to see what fun stuff my 'off' week brings. It's always something.