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Radiation -- A Piece of Cake?
 originally posted on Liz Loadholt
 
Is radiation treatment really just a piece of cake?
Well, quite a few well wishers informed our daughter, Liza, and our family that radiation treatment for her breast cancer would  be a ‘piece of cake’. 
Since Liza had undergone chemo, we were looking for some relief. We all wanted so much to believe that she would not have to undergo anymore pain.
So, we believed them and she went into her radiation treatment with high expectations of no pain, no nausea,no feeling drug out.
Being the optimistic family that we are, we were so thrilled that her misery was behind her.
Well, I guess radiation on different parts of the body act differently and also, I guess that there are probably different “doses” of radiation.The first couple of weeks (she is getting a treatment 5 days a week) went well and we were so pleased for her.

 
 
Fast forward to week 3 -- bad burns, no energy, aching legs, arms, etc.  Then, she must continue to receive those treatments knowing that things were just going to get worse with each one.You just have to keep telling yourself that we are lucky to be able to receive these treatments to kill those cancer cells who maybe ... more

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