Friday

Billie67
Billie67 Member Posts: 898
in Head and Neck Cancer #1

IT’S FRIDAY and that means that those of us who are going thru treatment get to have 2 days off! WooHoo! Really I just wanted to wish you all a great weekend and hope that you all get some rest and feel good...wherever you may be! I’m in Southern CA and we are looking at sunny skies at 76* tomorrow. You?

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  • Charmit
    Charmit Member Posts: 87
    #2
    Hi Billie first week of

    Hi Billie first week of treatment done and went yesterday for hydration and radiation and sat in the chair and cried was nauseous since Wednesday night. But my nurse Chris fixed me up, feeling moments of tiredness and it’s driving me insane. Is this normal for the first week?? Also told me to keep hydrated and take the nausea med every six hours regardless if I need it or not so I pray that helps. Weather in Wolcott CT is 71 and sunny. Husband is outside power washing the deck so I can sit and enjoy after my days at the hospital. Love when we can have meals out there. Thinking positive or at least trying week one down 6 more to go!!!

    Left side of neck feels strange, sore kinda like but throat is good, little mucus but that normal for me specially this time of year. 

    Hope your enjoying that Cali sun!!!

  • SuzJ
    SuzJ Member Posts: 446 Member
    #3
    Sunscreen

    reminder, while outside use a high SPF sunblock on your neck!

     

  • MindOverMatter
    MindOverMatter Member Posts: 13
    #4
    I love the weekend breaks also

    Hi

      I'm doing radition (IMRT) on just my left tonsil right now also.  I was just wondering how everyone else feels over the weekend?  Do you seem to get a little better or do you feel the treatments from the week cach up with you?  I'm only doing radiation, no chemo but I'm on week 3 ( 3 days done of the 5 for the week, I started on a Wed.)   I'm at the point were I'm getting ulcers on my tongue and the back of my mouth is sore. The weekend seems like a mixed bag for me, one minute I feel fairly good and a couple hours later lots of pain.    Hang in there eveyone we can get through this!

    Steve (MindoverMatter)

  • Billie67
    Billie67 Member Posts: 898
    #5
    Charmit said:

    Hi Billie first week of

    Hi Billie first week of treatment done and went yesterday for hydration and radiation and sat in the chair and cried was nauseous since Wednesday night. But my nurse Chris fixed me up, feeling moments of tiredness and it’s driving me insane. Is this normal for the first week?? Also told me to keep hydrated and take the nausea med every six hours regardless if I need it or not so I pray that helps. Weather in Wolcott CT is 71 and sunny. Husband is outside power washing the deck so I can sit and enjoy after my days at the hospital. Love when we can have meals out there. Thinking positive or at least trying week one down 6 more to go!!!

    Left side of neck feels strange, sore kinda like but throat is good, little mucus but that normal for me specially this time of year. 

    Hope your enjoying that Cali sun!!!

    Oh Honey, I’m so sorry. I

    Oh Honey, I’m so sorry. I remember it well. I am happy you are going to regular hydration right from the get’go. My dr didn’t start sending me until about the 3rd or 4th week and once he did I felt lots better.

    So yes, what you are going thru sounds very common. YES take the zofran regularly even if you think you are not nauseou. Staying ahead of it is key. 

    Make sure you use sunscreen and keep your neck out of direct sunlight if you can, your skin will be much more sensitive and more likely to burn and you don’t want the skin breaking down. You will get some breakdown during then end phases of treatment so prolong that as long as you can.

    keep drinking fluids and eating whenever you can.  Feel good my friend. 

  • Billie67
    Billie67 Member Posts: 898
    #6
    MindOverMatter said:

    I love the weekend breaks also

    Hi

      I'm doing radition (IMRT) on just my left tonsil right now also.  I was just wondering how everyone else feels over the weekend?  Do you seem to get a little better or do you feel the treatments from the week cach up with you?  I'm only doing radiation, no chemo but I'm on week 3 ( 3 days done of the 5 for the week, I started on a Wed.)   I'm at the point were I'm getting ulcers on my tongue and the back of my mouth is sore. The weekend seems like a mixed bag for me, one minute I feel fairly good and a couple hours later lots of pain.    Hang in there eveyone we can get through this!

    Steve (MindoverMatter)

    Weekends were pretty much the

    Weekends were pretty much the same for me. I would be thrilled to not have my daily rad appt and my weekly chemo appt but I felt like I’d been hit by a truck. But then I’d go back to being happy that I didn’t have to drag myself to my “glow treatments” Make sure you tell your RO about the sores so they can give you something. Sometimes its thrush and you need meds. 

    Get some rest!

    Billie

  • Darkdancer333
    Darkdancer333 Member Posts: 115 Member
    #7
    it seems i get 3 days off a

    it seems i get 3 days off a week. At least once a week the radiation gods can't keep their machine up and running. Last 4 weeks I have missed 1 day each week

    my weekend usually is to recover from chemo... its like no break 

  • Billie67
    Billie67 Member Posts: 898
    #8
    Darkdancer333 said:

    it seems i get 3 days off a

    it seems i get 3 days off a week. At least once a week the radiation gods can't keep their machine up and running. Last 4 weeks I have missed 1 day each week

    my weekend usually is to recover from chemo... its like no break 

    Oh gosh, sorry for all of the

    Oh gosh, sorry for all of the machine troubles. That being said, when I was going thru treatment I would have given anything for the machine to break haha

    Friday is right around the corner again so enjoy the upcoming couple o days off. 

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