My first radiation session was indeed painless and quick. I couldn\u2019t even tell when it was happening. I meant to ask if there\u2019s a noise the machine makes when emitting radiation; I\u2019ll try to remember tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m to moisturize twice a day and forgot that I shouldn\u2019t do it at least two hours beforehand. Thankfully a friend reminded me, and the nurse mentioned it when I asked about the frequency. I came home and immediately put Aloe Vera gel on, and will do so again before bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This afternoon, I met with the benign hematologist about my blood clot. He said it was minor and to stay on the blood thinner for three months. That means I can stop (no ultrasound or tapering needed) at the end of June. There\u2019s a 2% chance it will come back, but he said not to worry about it. If I have surgery in the future, I\u2019m to tell the surgeon I had a blood clot so they can put me on a low dose of blood thinner for a few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I asked why it happened, and he matter-of-factly asked me a question in return: \u201cWhy did you get breast cancer?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My first radiation session was indeed painless and quick. I couldn\u2019t even tell when it was happening. I meant to ask if there\u2019s a noise the machine makes when emitting radiation; I\u2019ll try to remember tomorrow. I\u2019m to moisturize twice a day and forgot that I shouldn\u2019t do it at least two hours beforehand. Thankfully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmyhead.com\/wordpress\/fcancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}