sone

no lectures, just sorry to hear that the radiation was too much for you. I respect your wish to hear from someone who stopped radiation early and lived. Unlike chris, I do not expect that you will ever get what you so desperately need and want: confirmation that you don't need the IMRT.
There are over 6000 registered members so you can do the math yourself if no one ever answers your plea. The fact is that everyone who is still alive to post regularly did finish their radiation. The only comfort I can hold out is that finishing the radiation is not a guarantee that you would have beat this cancer. Perhaps you will survive and then can offer hope in the future to someone else. Obviously though, not one of us thinks that is realistic just magical thinking. Instead, our collective experience is "heartless" reality. I have done massive radiation twice now and this second time around has just wrung me dry and left me totally drained and exhausted. Sorry it has been too much for you. Finally, if you can get your pain under control, it will not be too late to resume IMRT. One woman caregiver here had her husband stop IMRT and announced he was cured and that all of us should just go organic and eat raw food etc,. She got hammered here on the board so hard that if her husband is still alive, I cannot believe that she would not be back posting here and demanding that we all eat crow. Sadly, after announcing so loudly that stopping radiation was the cure, we have never heard from her again.
Again, good luck and I hope you are the exception that proves the rule.
charm