Hello to Week 3 of treatment

 


So, it's time to embrace Week 3 of treatment! I start the week at 78Kg, despite all the food and crap I have been eating over the last 3 weeks. After one and a half years of eating healthily it seems strange to be eating anything and everything that I come across. I have been encouraged to eat anything I can, and maintain my weight. If only I could taste it all! Sadly, I still have no taste or sense of smell. It's weird operating with two of the five senses totally missing in action.

The photo today is from my last radiotherapy session on Friday 30th December. I think I have mentioned in a previous post that before the radiotherapy, a quick CT scan is done for positioning and calibration purposes, and this is mine. In three axis it shows the two tumors, which are identified in the red line. This is where the major radiotherapy is occurring. Out from that is the light-blue line. This is where medium dosage is being delivered, and the orange, a low dose. So, now you can see the fuckers hiding in my neck!

This week I have five sessions (Tue, Wed, Thur, Fri x2) and am told things will start to ramp from stuff happening. I'll keep you all updated :)

I've also just received my next chemotherapy session; Monday 9th January. Not looking forward to that as I still remember how crap the first session made me, and that was with no cumulative effect.

On another note, Mum and Dad organised to send down Dad's prized recliner. Dad has beaten cancer, and did chemotherapy and radiotherapy, so he has a great understanding of what I'm going through. He said the chair will help. I still remember as a small boy when Mum and Dad go this chair, and it's always been the best chair I have ever sat in. Still is. It's beautiful supple leather and reclines. Good luck getting it back, Dad!



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