28 days and counting

I really like these pictures from the website, www.yourtruenature.com This one is appropriate in that it calls for patience. I'm so anxious because I am so close to being done with treatment!! But I've heard it goes by fast.. so I just need to be patient. :)

And so I have begun this last leg of my breast cancer journey. I started radiation on Thursday, November 11th. My prescription calls for 30 days total of treatment and I estimate that I will be done on Christmas Eve (if they're open that day). If they are closed, then it will be December 27th.

The radiation therapists are very kind. They like to joke around with me and (for some reason) think I 'have a great sense of style'. :) They love my purse. They love my necklace. They love my jeans. I walk out of there feeling fabulous!

The radiation is quick and painless. I get to Radiation Oncology, check-in and go right to the dressing room. I change into a hospital gown (leaving the lower half dressed) and sit briefly in the waiting room. Once they call me in, I just walk back to the radiating room, lie down and they mark me and line me up under the machine. Then I just lay there with my arms up over my head, gown open over my mastectomy site and watch the machine rotate around me as I listen to country music. Five minutes later, I'm back in the changing rooom and out the door headed home.

Like I said, quick and painless! :) And that's that. More updates soon! xo