We thought it might be fun during this journey to take as many photos as we could to help share the experience! Vic has always wanted to learn how to learn the ropes of photography but “never had the time”. Well, now we are taking the time – funny how that works out. He has become my personal photo journalist and it couldn’t be more fun. I’m always taking beautiful pics of the kids and him at work all the time and it’s nice to be on the other side. These pics below were taken on our walk home today from radiation – so far I’m feeling good today after my first round of Chemo… I’m sure our photo booth pics will range in laughter to tears.
Day 1. Chemoradiation.
Wednesday, August 26th 2015.
It’s Day 1. Today I start my treatment. Today I am officially a cancer patient & I feel great! Ask me tomorrow how I’m feeling! 🙂
My treatment plan is called Chemoradiation. The doctors have said that giving radiotherapy and chemotherapy at the same time seems to work better at killing cancer cells than having these treatments on their own. The reason for this is not very clear but researchers think it may be because the chemotherapy makes cancer cells more sensitive to radiotherapy. I have 25 external radiation sessions Monday-Friday & 5 sessions of Chemo (Cisplatin) every Wednesday. After that treatment is done I will go straight into Brachytherapy for 2 weeks which is a radiation therapy where I am admitted to the hospital and put under anesthetic to receive the internal radiation therapy implants. Here we go!!!
Tutus make everything better.
It’s true. Tutu’s make everything better… or feel better at least.
Tutu’s with a tiger beater = complete bliss.
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