Hi Again, Everyone!

This week has been very intense with all the news of the Covid-19 Pandemic. It’s especially scary as I’m going through chemo, but we’re limiting our time outside the house and taking all the precautions we can! We hope you’re staying safe and healthy, too! And that you have plenty of TP 🙂

We wrapped up the third week of chemo and radiation this week. My radiologist warned me that around the third week, I’d start having more intense side effects from the radiation. So far I’ve been very lucky and haven’t experienced severe side effects. I’m able to keep tackling those tax returns! I do have to take breaks as I have been pretty tired, but that’s a small price to pay to attack this cancer aggressively.

This week at our weekly check in with the radiologist, she started discussing the next step in my treatment which will be a specialized internal radiation called Brachy Therapy. Radioactive seeds will be placed inside my tumor during a procedure. The doctor can use much higher doses of radiation than the external radiation. It will involve a few nights in the hospital, but the doctor jokes that it will be like a vacation after 5 weeks of daily radiation. That will most likely happen in about 3 weeks.

My pain has gone way down, so we are very hopeful that means the tumor in my pelvis is shrinking!

Thank you for your continued love, prayers, and positive thoughts. It has truly been so wonderful connecting with so many of you. I keep saying that not everything is bad about this diagnosis, and I feel the ability to connect with clients, family, and friends on a deeper level has been one of the blessings of this experience.

Love,

Vicki