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i’m trying to figure out the samething! my mom starts radiation next monday i’m so scared! i dont know if my mom will ever be the same, but its a chance she’s willing to take and i’m just gonna be by her side the whole time. i love her so much and im very scared myself.=( so it’s really your decision b.c they told my mom if she doesn’t do this, she’ll def. die.

Posted on May 12, 2008 at 2:00:20 PM by daughterslove

I had 36 days in a row of radiation from my ear to the bottom of my rib cage. They did this after chemo, and a radical masectomy. You can’t feel it so it is hard to comprehend. It is like a xray. Mine was called pinpoint radiation and about the 25th day my skin turned to liquid. They had marked on me with permanent markers that I had to be very careful with during that time. I remember that it made me very tired, more so than chemo. The positive side is they expected the stage 3b cancer to make it past my lymph nodes and gave me a six month timeline of life. That was in 2004. I still go for 6 month Pet Scans and I have a burn scar but I am alive. My quality of life is good, I have a 12 yr. old and am able to care for him and my husband as well as my home. Radiation is a scary word but so are snakes when handled incorrectly. Please feel free to contact me with questions or concerns, it will be okay.

Posted on May 14, 2008 at 1:13:58 PM by simplysharron