Sunday, January 27, 2013

Slightly Splotchy

My skin has begun to feel like it is slightly sunburned and at this point is only a little splotchy. Not really uncomfortable, but just a little something to know it is there. Oddly enough, this makes me feel better, like radiation is a real treatment and not an elaborate prank. I think having gone from chemo where you could watch and feel the treatment go into your body and the side effects were pretty evident 1.5 weeks in (taste changes, dry skin, hair starting to fall out) to the invisible world of XRT amplifies this feeling.

My hair is growing quite well. I still have bald spots, but they are getting fewer (mostly in the front, like male pattern baldness). My hair is still growing in with 3 colors (brown, blonde and white), but the brown is becoming more prominent (and helping with not having such gaping spots of scalp showing). The metallic taste is now gone the majority of the time, except when I get thirsty, but much better. I am finally able to put my contacts back in (my eyeballs were too dry from the Taxotere) and I am able to eat chocolate! Yay! I may have pushed it a little too hard as I ate 1/2 lb of pretzel M and M's this weekend, but GI system is still function normally; Win.

My stamina is much better. I stayed awake until after 9 pm the last 3 nights and I ran 3 miles today. Random tangent: two men were working out at the gym today and one was giving the other nutrition advise (I love to listen in on what people think is good nutrition). This one guy was telling the other that he should eat 2 cups whole greek yogurt with at least one cup whole milk blended with whey protein before he came to gym next time. He told him it had to be the "high fat stuff" because that would help him burn more fat while at the gym Oy vey.

This was all I could think of:

This week's music being pumped into the XRT room were different, but all enjoyable. There was some Frank Sinatra one day, country music the next, but my favorite had to be Friday. Below is the song that was on for all of Fridays treatment (and yes, that is how quick treatment is):

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