I finished radiation on Tuesday (yippee!) and will continue to take another couple of weeks to recover to where I feel like I can have a semi-normal day. Radiation really took a lot of my normal spirit away and made me so so so tired and made me sore. In reality, it will take many weeks for the effects to go away if I can count on what happened last time to also happen to me this time.
Next week I will be starting another journey. I really don't know what to expect, as I have heard so much good and so much bad about what I am going to begin next. I will start hormonal therapy and will be on various types of therapy for the next five to ten years. I keep joking to people that I will soon grow a mustache and my voice will get deeper (yikes!), but truth be told it scares me a lot. I just have to keep remembering that I am trying to do everything I can to keep cancer from re-entering my life.
I'll be back in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, I hope to get around at some point to look at creative blogs again. As always, thanks for your sweet comments. Keep the faith!
Gentle hugs and I hope you feel better REALLY SOON!!!
I am a new member of your SBS #28 and wanted to come over to say hello!
Posted by: Jeannie | July 05, 2009 at 08:19 AM
Hi Wendy,
Glad to hear your radiation is over. Hope you can regain your strength that the side effects pass quicker than last time.
I was on hormone therapy for about 16 years. It was great because I had no "private heat waves"
Take Care!
Posted by: suzann | July 05, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Hi Wendy, Ok this part is over and yes it does take a while to get over the tiredness and the soreness, but your there. As for the drugs depends on which one you have to go on, on what the side effects might be and for how long, most of them are for 5 years. I have found getting enough sleep is hard with them and I do get the hot flashes with the one I'm on, it's like being back in menopause again. Oh well it's better than having to worry about it coming back. Take care and we'll go through this journey together, as I'm still in therapy for another 3 years.
Hugs to you and glad to see you've done the radiation.
Hugs Cindy
Posted by: Cindy van Oorschot | July 06, 2009 at 10:07 PM
I hope that now the radiation is over that you can start to build yourself up again and get back to near normal!!(whatever that is) I pray that things get better every day from here on in.
Love Ya
xx
Posted by: lizzy | July 11, 2009 at 02:59 AM