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12-05-2022 04:21 PM
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The first radiation treatment went well. No difficulties and she isn't feeling any ill effects. These don't come until week 2 or 3 so that's not unexpected. At least they are started.
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Prayers are all still going out to you both. Be well my friends.
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Same still here for you both.
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You've both gone far. Keep pressing on as you have. Sending strength, as are we all.
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Been a bit since I checked in to the forums but I hate to hear about the delays. It sounds like her team didn't communicate well and likely one person assumed another was keeping you updated. Communication is a critical aspect of professionalism and poor communication may be my biggest pet peeve with my team.
And forgive me for indulging in some minutae but is it a radiologist or radiation oncologist that is administering the treatments? I'm in the US and curious if the Dr may have a different role here vs there. Radiologists usually only interlret images and rad once use radiation to treat.
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Originally Posted by
mnmkeller
is it a radiologist or radiation oncologist that is administering the treatments?
No idea, I'm in the US also so would assume it's the same. She has an oncologist that handles her chemo, immunotherapy, a surgeon that handled the removal of the tumor and lymph nodes and recovery, her regular doctor who is working on her sugar levels now and the Radiologist, who is treating her with radiation. That's all they have ever called her. She is a doctor, I know that much.
They are switching her position on the radiation table now. She had been face down, now she is face up and has new tatoos. Assuming this is standard proceedure to hit it from a different angle.
She started seeing a dietitian yesterday also as she is now pre-diabetic. This is causing some concern as the radiologist does not want her to lose weight and it seems everyone else does. She is overweight by a good bit. I suspect this has something to do with weight loss being a sign something is going wrong. They want her to eat more meats, less carbs.
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For some reason I thought you were outside the US..shows how much 8 can trust myself somedays.
The concern about eating is kinda twofold...first you need extra calories when going through any kind of recovery and second you want to avoid total loss of appetite which could continue past the treatment stages.
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