The last treatment
At last, the treatments are over!!!!!
Yesterday, I went for the thirteenth and last treatment. I go back to see Dr. Han in two weeks. I also see Dr. Della Rocca in about two weeks.
They let me take home the pig’s head as a souvenir. I am thinking of mounting it on the wall, sort of like a trophy. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
This past weekend, I sort of hit the wall. On Sunday, I was so exhausted that I felt like I was walking uphill no matter which way I was going. The cold from hell has still been clinging to me. I left work an hour early, and collapsed when I got home. Monday morning, I woke with a raging sore throat and dragged myself to the last treatment, with the expectation that, if I made it to work, I would not make it all the way to the end of the shift.
But somehow, I got a second wind. I worked to the end of the day and was even reasonably chipper.
So, what do I have to show for thirteen sessions of radiation?
I think I have some improvement on the eye, but I am not absolutely sure. My eye was looking better and I seemed to be having less double vision. But I am also having dryness in that eye and some blurriness of the vision. Dr. Della Rocca had told me that my retina might have some temporary reaction to the radiation, and I am chalking the blurriness to that. I will mention the dryness to Dr. Della Rocca when I see him, if it doesn’t resolve by then.
The other good news is that I am now down to 10 milligrams of prednisone. I have not been this low in at least 4 months. I still use the prednisone eye drops.
I asked my friend Heather how bad I had been when I was on the highest doses of prednisone. She paused for a bit and said that I had been talking very fast. I said, “You mean I was talking even faster than I usually do?” She admitted that this is what she meant. Ahhh, prednisone mania.
Yesterday, I went for the thirteenth and last treatment. I go back to see Dr. Han in two weeks. I also see Dr. Della Rocca in about two weeks.
They let me take home the pig’s head as a souvenir. I am thinking of mounting it on the wall, sort of like a trophy. Does anyone have any other suggestions?
This past weekend, I sort of hit the wall. On Sunday, I was so exhausted that I felt like I was walking uphill no matter which way I was going. The cold from hell has still been clinging to me. I left work an hour early, and collapsed when I got home. Monday morning, I woke with a raging sore throat and dragged myself to the last treatment, with the expectation that, if I made it to work, I would not make it all the way to the end of the shift.
But somehow, I got a second wind. I worked to the end of the day and was even reasonably chipper.
So, what do I have to show for thirteen sessions of radiation?
I think I have some improvement on the eye, but I am not absolutely sure. My eye was looking better and I seemed to be having less double vision. But I am also having dryness in that eye and some blurriness of the vision. Dr. Della Rocca had told me that my retina might have some temporary reaction to the radiation, and I am chalking the blurriness to that. I will mention the dryness to Dr. Della Rocca when I see him, if it doesn’t resolve by then.
The other good news is that I am now down to 10 milligrams of prednisone. I have not been this low in at least 4 months. I still use the prednisone eye drops.
I asked my friend Heather how bad I had been when I was on the highest doses of prednisone. She paused for a bit and said that I had been talking very fast. I said, “You mean I was talking even faster than I usually do?” She admitted that this is what she meant. Ahhh, prednisone mania.
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