Dear Anne,
Thank you for the lovely centerpiece delivered to our house today. Your card read "Let the Healing Begin!" I cried. Not because I was touched that you remembered the exact day my radiation was to end, but because there are still two treatments waiting for me.
The machine broke down Tuesday and won't be fixed at least until tomorrow, Thursday. At best, my radiation will end two days from now. I doubt you can fathom how disappointed I was to have two days off mid-week when it meant I wouldn't END ON SCHEDULE -- but if you really want to know how I felt about it, just ask Greg or Elaine or anyone else who had the misfortune of speaking to me yesterday. I was not a very patient patient.
...And so, if radiation ends Friday, December 9, I should begin healing Friday December 23. Let's have another refill on the pain pills then, shall we?
(The other day I asked the technicians if they often see skin this adversely affected by treatment. "Oh yes," they said, "We often see patients whose skin is open and bleeding." That made me feel like a real whimp. Today my skin opened. No bleeding so far, but 'not feeling all that whimpy anymore.)
What time did I take that last codeine?
Beautiful bouquet but sad what was to be, wasn't! Shooting for the 9th and 23rd when I'll celebrate your healing and hubby's big six oh. Deb
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