April 14, 2011

• Quick Hello!

  I’m finding it harder and harder to squeeze time in for writing on Xanga.

  I’m not quitting, though!

  Someday, I’ll get pictures uploaded and share.

  Annamarie has had a birthday and I’ve had my own!

      

  I’m starting today with 14 rounds of radiation on my lower vertebrae and sacrum.  The cancer isn’t huge and my tumor markers are lower than 3 months ago, but my lower back is extremely painful, ESPECIALLY the sacrum.

  When I heard there was a “little cancer” there, I wanted to immediately kill it.  A snap judgment on my part.

  However, when the radiology oncologist told me 90% of people have a reduction in pain and 50% have a result of NO pain (at all), after undergoing radiation in the sacrum, I was convinced to have the radiation done.

  The appointment will last 2 minutes each day, and I won’t even need to change into a gown. 

  That’s a lot of driving for 14 days to the OTHER side of town in my gas guzzling Suburban. 

  But, if it makes the pain less . . .

       

  I would appreciate everyone’s prayers. 

  They expect the only side effect to be fatigue.

  I’m expecting a favorable response to treatments! 

  Gotta run . . .

  Be Blessed  ~

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