It’s been 6 weeks since round 5…and I’m finally getting around to sharing about this one.  I had so many emotional ups and downs with this one and I felt awful for 2 weeks.  Throwing up three days in a row and not knowing what to expect is just exhausting!

I met a radiologist to talk about radiation. My Surgeon, my Oncologist and now my Radiologist (oh my) all want me to do radiation.  It’s ok, they will just be damaging a piece of my lung and it’s just a really bad sunburn…maybe.

Nothing is certain on how my body will react.  Just having surgery may affect my left arm and cause it to swell and hurt again. If this happens  I will have to go to a lymphedema therapist to help rehabilitate it.

My arm hasn’t hurt since I started Chemo.  It has gotten sore because I sleep on it sometimes, but I have been using  Frankincense oil and the swelling is gone plus it helps take the soreness away.  So my smart remarks are things that I am not looking forward to doing.

Do I still have cancer cells in my body?  They don’t know, so we will do another PET SCAN to see.  Are there alternatives?  I’m still looking.  The type of cancer I had was pretty aggressive, so what is the best decision?  It will be figured out in time and I will know without a doubt that I was able to make the right decision.

-Tamika