Just a Little Glow Worm!!!

Today was my scheduled appointment with my radiation oncologist to get the ball rolling for my treatment once I finish chemo next week...... which nearly got derailed last night.

Apparently I just can't get enough of the emergency department. But thankfully this time I got there under my own steam :)  

Chemo patients have a golden rule they have to adhere to, and if we get a temperature of 38 we have to head off to hospital. So after a couple of days of an annoying cough, and hoping it was just an annoying asthma cough, I started to feel a bit warm so took my temp.... sure enough, I was 37.5  By 7.30pm I'd reached 38.3 so after finishing dinner (cos it's never a quick trip when it's the hospital) we headed in. I have to say, they are so lovely, and considerate when it comes to chemo patients. They kept me away from everyone else sitting there, got me to a two bed cubicle and made sure anyone who came in wasn't contagious and made sure I was comfortable while they stuck me with a crappy cannula (I reeeealllly sook at cannula's) Thankfully my white cell count was acceptable, ruling out infection, and chest x-ray and pee test was good, so it was decided whatever was going on was viral and semi reluctantly, they let me home as long as I behaved myself at home, and presented back there if I felt worse. My temp has been up again a bit this afternoon, but paracetamol has it under control and I feel a bit better, so hopefully it will resolve itself by tomorrow.

Back to my radiation oncology visit.

Today really reminded me that on this wonderful journey, you really need to take it one appointment at a time. The original plan was for 5 weeks of daily radiation treatment (weekends off) But the good doctor has decided to extend it by another week. Apparently recent studies have shown that younger women (awww bless his little socks) do well if the original site is targeted solely for an extra week. So I have an appointment straight after my chemo next Wednesday at St Stephen's Imagery, for my CT planning scan. They will put little tattoo marks to identify the radiation areas... yes I'm going to be a tattoo wearing grandma, and then radiation starts September 19th.

So there you have it.... starting mid September, I'll be a little glowing glow worm.... well, not really, but it's a cute analogy.