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Posted by tanya
Today was my first trial at taking the kids to radio. They were great. We sat in the waiting room and they both came to look at the bed I lie on and the big machine then they sat in the waiting area. They were armed with a gingerbread man each and one had an iPod and the other had my iPad - yuppy ki...
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All is going well after 3 days radiotherapy. I have weekends off - so it's 5 days per week. Apparently after about 2 weeks the area will start to feel like sunburn - but from the inside out. And this is when I might start experiencing fatigue.It's been going well though on Friday I had to wait for o...
Posted by tanya
Until recently I vaguely knew what radiotherapy was but I didn't know what it looked like or how it worked. So some practical info... Where chemo is a systemic (or whole of body) treatment, radiotherapy is a targeted therapy. Meaning that it is designed to target a specific area of the body. Every ...
Posted by tanya
There's lots on my mind at the moment but I don't feel the energy to organize my thoughts and then write them out! On Monday I had a six month check up with my surgeon. She is happy with the scars and how they're healing. However she did open up a whole can of worms when we discussed the end of tre...
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Yesterday Leila's school had a special prize-giving assembly. A boy and a girl were chosen from each class. Her fabulous teacher wrote these beautiful words "I would like to ask Leila Braddock to come up and be the first recipient of the Room 5 Book Award. Where can I start? Leila comes in first th...
Posted by tanya
Yesterday morning I did some cancer work. I had lots of phone calls to make - appointments to schedule, bills to pay, drugs to check. I have a mountain of bills still to file and organise. Every day I am trying to keep at front of mind: Don't take on to much. Find as many moments in the day to enjo...
Posted by tanya
I only ever wrote this blog when I felt like it - it's been a long time since my last post. I guess I probably needed a break from being cancer girl for a while. I just didn't feel like talking about it so that's why I didn't worry about writing. I'm sitting here at Franco and Marisol's house in Ne...
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Last night we took the kids to hear Justine from Play School sing with WASO at the zoo. The kids had a ball. Thie next pics were taken by me in the change room wearing the blue gown for the last time at radiotherapy last Tuesday. And my #74 gown bag that was kept in a pigeon hole for me - now i...
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Had my last appointment with Dr Zissiadis, my radiation oncologist this morning that Mark came to. Interestingly she said that most of her under-55s feel more apprehension than excitement once treatment finishes. She went over what I can do from here-on-in - avoid alcohol, eat a healthy diet, exerci...
Posted by tanya
Finished treatment today. The close of another chapter I guess. I was diagnosed on 14 May last year so it's been 8-1/2 long months worth of many many doctor's appointments, surgery, chemo, radiotherapy, and lots of boxes of pills. Today's last radio was as uneventful as any other appointment. The b...
