I haven’t posted anything the last couple of days because there was not much new except the accumulative effect of the radiation just kept building up. By Thursday and Friday, I had very little left. I would come home from radiation and sleep for 2 hours, then most of the days were spent more or less in bed from all sorts of misery. No need to repeat here. Let’s just say I am getting the “full experience”, wouldn’t be any fun to leave anything out, would it? lol! I am grateful for the weekend to take a break. My poor body is definitely out in its own little world!

I have 3 more radiation sessions next week, then I am done! They should give me a been-there-done-that t-shirt that says, 

I survived my radiation without turning into a green hulk (from puking)!

Have a great weekend, all you beautiful loving healthy people out there! 🙂 Enjoy some sunshine and fun for me please. 

Dopey Helena didn’t get high, just got a good night’s sleep from 1 single drop of tincture! Some powerful stuff. As usual, I missed all the fun of being in an altered state! Hahaha! People drink alcohol and get high, I drink alcohol and get sleepy. Why should this be different? I really felt like I had a bottle of wine. I bet I was asleep in 5 minutes last night! The difference is I didn’t wake up with a hangover. The effect lasted about 4 hours or so, when I woke up, I was clear headed.

This morning I got smart. Instead of taking my Tagrisso in the afternoon after my radiation, I took it at 6am this morning! Normally I can’t just change the time I take the medicine, but since I threw it up yesterday, it became a reset day. So, my pill was well digested long before radiation. I did throw up around dinner time, but that’s ok. I am not upset this time. I get use to throwing up, shrug my shoulders and move on. Isn’t that awful? lol! 

I have to report some good news. I have been on Targrisso for less than 10 days, my cough has gotten so much better. I stopped coughing up blood after being on it for 3 days. My lungs are beginning to clear up. There was a bulging lymph node sticking out on the side of my neck now pretty much all gone! It’s amazing what this drug is doing for me. Celebrating little victories and milestones! 🙂

Thank you all for your wonderful comments and words of encouragement from my last post!

Yesterday radiation treatments started back up, my body really did not like it one bit. With two days off over the weekend, my body thought we were done with that stuff. This time, the nausea came back with a fight!! Even with anti-nausea prescription medication, seabands, ginger tea, and rice soup, my body has managed to throw up twice yesterday and once today. The big problem today was I threw up my Tagrisso super-duper drug. I am not allowed to have a makeup dose if I throw up because there is no way to tell how much was digested even though it was only in my system for less than 30 min. It would have to count as a missing dose. 🙁

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