Toni completed her 7 weeks of radiation yesterday! The Evergreen Hospital staff awarded her a signed certificate (soon to be posted on the blog). YEAH!!!! She also had her oncology consult with Dr. Linden.
For better or worse, Toni is quite healthy... and Dr. Linden wants her to get an appropriate level of Chemo. And that means more than Toni was expecting. You see, Toni and Dr. Linden have been negotiating from the start. Although, what some may call as a "compromise" was reached, Toni was in a bit of a GRRRRR mode. She gets a respite until November 13th, in which she will start a 5 week session of chemo. This will take her to a new projected ("DONE WITH CHEMO DATE") of December 11th. Since we are planning to go back to Colorado for the holiday, Toni was hoping for more recovery time from the chemo and portacatheter being removed. Remember, the chemo is sort of lagging... and is cumulative, so she'll be experiencing peak effects the weekend we fly to Colorado (December 18th). Yet the end is in sight.
She is starting to "heal" from the radiation. The last few sessions of "tumor area focused radiation" allowed for the rest of her breast and underarm to start to heal. She "burned" pretty narly-ish under her arm. I simply choose not to look at that area. It is getting better, but bright pink skin mixed with peeling stuff...blahhh. I was able to stomach the scars and squeegying her drain tube, but there is just something about a burn I just can't handle. Once the under arm heals, I can deal with the peeling skin stuff. I have shed many a layer in my past days (probably bad, very bad).
Ok... enough of that... and onto a short VACATION. Toni and I are heading to the beaches along the Oregon coast to chill out. So stay tuned, we are going to be uploading pictures of Toni and Bry's Oregon Trail vacation. We are also trying out a GARMIN 1390 GPS. Yes, we are taking an Atlas as a backup:)
We warned Mr. Maggie that he needs to play nicely with the kitty sitter.
On another note... I am a good candidate for LASIK. Scheduled for November 6th... yeesh!
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