Three Weeks. Two Months. One Year.

We're done with Radiation!!!

Three Weeks.  We get about three weeks off of Chemo too.  First of many MRIs is scheduled followed by an evaluation.

Two Months. The radiation doctor says damage will continue for a while even though the treatments are finished.  It's about two months to see what recovers.  This might be a TMI (Too Much Information), but the obvious physical effects are 1) the hair loss over the left ear, 2) the eyes feel like they're sunburned, and 3) inside my nose is gross.  The hair loss was expected and it'll come back or it won't. It's pretty much dead to the touch right now.  I saw the beam cross my eyes several times during each treatment.  I think this will come back.   I felt and smelled a zap to my nose every treatment.  There are no bad sores or pain. Let's just stick with "gross". I think this will heal too.  The other effects are harder to guess what improvement will occur in the next two months.  I sometimes have a hard time coming up with the right words and my "speeling" is poor.  We talked with the doctor about loss of short term memory as a common effect of the treatment.  This is a big one. I've been using my brain solving hard problems and learning new complex things, so some of the time I still got it.

One Year.  Chemo will restart after the evaluation for a year.

I read aloud page 47 of 531 of the Book of Mormon today.  Nephi includes wisdom from Isaiah from the brass plates in his record.