I'm not an accountant...I'm a lawyer. Is it OK to agree with the number crunchers? I was far sicker during the three weeks post radiation than I was at any point...even the days immediatley after surgery.

And I had a LOT of surgery, plus respiratory arrest, followed by cardiac arrest, defibrillation and coma for nearly a week. When the RO told me that I would be a lot sicker after radiation, I told him he was crazy...there were days that I felt too sick to die after surgery.

He was right, and I apologized for doubting him. I was in bed 23 1/2 hours a day for oer a week after radiaiton ended. The only "vertical time" I had was to go to the washroom.

I developed some rather nasty burns on my neck from treatment too, but they really "ripened" about 4 days post the last Tx. They healed quickly, and that was the first real step of progress that we saw. After that, it was all....slow.

Slow, but steady. Can't ask for more than that!
Wyane