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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 10, 2023 19:29:19 GMT
Oh, hugs to you my friend. What a rough go of it you are having. No, you are not healed yet. This is not over. It's good healing, but you still have to go through the treatment and that takes time. Add in a brain injury (that are almost always mind-numbing fatiguing) and you are entitled to feel how you feel.
I had (and still have) a mass of scar tissue that caused horrible vertigo. HORRIBLE. I wasn't much to anyone for a year or so as I deteriorated and then crawled up out of the abyss. If I got laundry washed and the kids fed for the week, that was a good week. DH was deployed during the worst of it for 6 months and I asked for help a lot. And yes, I did feel like a bit of a fake. After all, it wasn't cancer. Several women in my friend group were dealing with cancer and I felt like I couldn't complain. But I did sleep a ton, my house was a mess, and I didn't volunteer with much that year. We were just surviving week to week.
You have one job right now--to get better. And it will take as long as it takes. You just need to get to the other side of the radiation and I'd bet that you will rapidly feel much better.
Hugs!
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Post by lucyg on Jul 10, 2023 21:14:48 GMT
I missed this entire thread till now. So very sorry you have to suffer with this. I had six weeks of radiation to my mastectomy site after chemotherapy finished. This was 25 years ago. I really don’t remember it being so awful (it was easier than chemotherapy) but it did do permanent damage to my skin. Every cancer treatment plan seems have slightly (or greatly) different effects on the victims patients. I wish this could be easier for you. Hugs to you.
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