Tara's Breast Cancer Journey: The longest 6 weeks EVER is now over!

I am so glad this day is finally here. I know I said it before, but I will say it again- I would have gladly done another round of chemo if it would have gotten me out of radiation. Actually- I would do 2 rounds of chemo for that! Seriously! I have never known that level of exhaustion. I think I have only gone to the grocery store about 3 times in the last 6 weeks. And that's not because I plan ahead and buy a lot of groceries at once. We basically just didn't eat very well, and certainly didn't eat anything home cooked. Oh well! In the last week, I have really started to burn quite badly under my arm. I begged for new medications. A week ago, they did give me some aquaphor mixed with lidocaine- meant to numb the area. It didn't. I went back and asked for something else, but they told me the burn wasn't 'bad enough' for the next medication :( This weekend was really rough- I ended up crying a few times because it just hurt so bad. I then dove into my stash of 'good' pain pills, and tried to stay doped up as much as possible. I took a picture of it but the camera just doesn't do it justice. The dark area is much more of a purpley brown rather than just the dark red that it appears. Today was great though- I am glad to be done, and also glad that my burn was finally bad enough that they gave me a soaking solution and some silvadine- I have heard that it is really good for healing burns! Oh thank goodness!

Since it was my last day of radiation, we had a little fun. I made brownies to take in to the staff- I topped them with florescent green frosting- *radiation brownies* !! :) Also, since going to radiation, Ethan has mentioned a few times that I should take a spider with me and radiate it, and then bring it back to him so he could get some spiderman action going on. Well, I decided to take a plastic spider with me, but couldn't find one. Instead, I brought a little plastic frog. The radiation techs put it on my bolice during my treatment hehe! Then, after my treatment I got to go up front and ring the bell, while they all cheered for me. Of course, now that I am done with that.....I still have to go back for my herceptin treatments. The next one is tomorrow. I never catch much of a break, but Thursday and Friday I am really going to enjoy not going into the Center!