Wheres Waldo Update

It has been a few days (4 to be exact) since the last radiation treatment. It is a bit different to now have to go to someplace for treatment every Monday through Friday. One benefit to going in every day is bouncing questions off of the people at the radiation facility about different side effects I may be experiencing. Now the only way to do that is call the oncologist office. That is what we plan to do today.

Its Sunday and the mucus situation hasn't gotten any better. It actually making things worse at this point. I was told that the week after the radiation treatment ended would be the worse and it is living up to that point. The biggest problem is the inability to get comfortable in any position for any length of time. This has also disrupted any type of normal sleep pattern. Hopefully when we talk to the doctors office today they can make some suggestions on how to deal with the mucus situation. My guess is that the radiation treatment to the sinus areas has aggravated the mucus production and is causing the problem. According to the radiation oncologist the impact of the radiation treatment will accumulate until about 1 week after treatments stop. That would put the low point at Wednesday and then things would start to pick up slowly.

Hopefully there is something that they can do about the sleeping. One thing that would make this a bit more bearable is the ability to just zone out part of the time. There isn't much on TV late at night (other than get rich quick schemes and advertisements for certain "enhancement" products) After awhile the food channel AKA the Food Porn Channel gets a bit old. BTW have any of those people every had to actually consider the ingredient cost and clean up time when they are cooking? :-)

So hopefully the oncologist will have some suggestions today for what we can do to help make things a bit more comfortable.