Captive in a Cancer Cocoon
Trying to Find Myself Again
Part 4: Treatments are over except for medication for five years.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in March 2010 and by July 2010 I had completed my lumpectomy surgery and radiation treatments. I have heard that after radiation, some women pick up their routines as if nothing happened. I tried to do this, too, but it took me awhile before I could get back into my old routines. It was hard hearing people tell me that friends “breezed through” radiation. One friend told me that she only wanted people to “think” that she had breezed through it and that made me feel better. For me post-radiation was difficult. I had a radiation side effect, radiation pneumonitis. Neither the radiation oncologist nor my primary care doctor agreed with my self-diagnosis, but I was sure of it. Loss of Breath Radiation …
Melissa Riley
5:10 pm on Thursday, August 11, 2011
TY N-Hardy! I loved that the article pointed out that the people who suffered the most side effects were least likely to have a cancer recurrence. I will ask my doctor about the vitamin E! TY :) more ›