| Re: Wednesday Chat 11.02. |
Subject: Re: Wednesday Chat 11.02. by screamin_conure on 2011/11/2 16:27:25 Quote:
Words to live by. Another day in paradise here. Nice weather for this time of year in Chicago, so can't complain about that. Had my initial consult with the radiology oncologist yesterday. She has one more scan that she wants to look at before she completely commits to doing radiation vs. chemotherapy. I thought I had this all worked out with my primary oncologist, but I guess the radiology doctor wants to be 100% certain. She also told me that due to the location of my tumor, I was likely going to lose a fair bit of hair along my hairline, and that there was no guarantee it would grow back. My hair was the only thing that really made me happy when I looked in the mirror and it looks like that's going now too. They also told me that I would have what looks like a harsh sunburn on that area for a while, AND they were going to tatoo a temporary cross on my forehead to be used during daily treatments to line up the linear accelerator. Wonderful. Bald, sunburned and a cross in the middle of my forehad. Should be a hoot. When I balked about the tatoo, they said perhaps they can give me a radiation mask and put the cross on that instead of my forehead. At least I got that goin' for me. Sorry for the rant, but things didn't go quite as well as I had hoped for yesterday. I can just hear the old/fat/bald/Corvette snipes coming from my friends already.  |
