Not Fade Away and Radiate
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. Like any day it's going to get back and I'm going to have movie cancer. I certainly haven't lost any weight. I'm finished with the Taxol which was supposed to be the BAD chemo. I got a break and now I go to a month of radiation, plus Herceptin IV chemo every three weeks. Radiation is its own process as well. It's not what I thought it was, as I was envisioning a mammogram but with more power, that it was uncomfortable and painful. You hear horror stories, people being burned badly and it affecting other areas. A friend relayed an experience of a relative and rang the alarm bells since that person had permanent internal organ damage. Walking down the hallway of the hospital hallway, I saw the iconic "fallout shelter" sign from my post-Cold-War youth. It looks pretty cool. I feel like I'm on the Star Trek Holodeck.I see a cover of a magazine in the waiting room, and the woman looks pretty happy to hav