I’ve been a little busy since my last posting. Tuesday I had an MRI on my hips. I thought it was only going to be my right hip but they went ahead and did both, which is fine other than it meant about 2 hours on that hard table without moving. I was planning on going back to work after the MRI, but I was so sore that I went home, took some pain meds and just crashed. I’m getting to the point where I don’t care much for MRI’s.

Wednesday I got a call from my radiation oncologist. He wanted to meet with me and start my radiation treatments. Good news, now maybe I can get rid of some of the pain in my hips. He’s treating several areas at the same time so I’m not sure how I’ll hold up fatigue-wise, but I’ll keep pluggin’ along. This time they’re administering the radiation through the back side, meaning I lay on my stomach for the treatment. Shouldn’t be a big deal except that one of the areas that’s causing some pain is in the front part of the ribs; and I lay on a hard table for treatment; and they had a hard time getting everything lined up yesterday; and they had a problem with the machine; so I laid on the table for about an hour and a half. Now everything’s sore on the front side. It’s really not a big deal though, I’m just moving kind of slow right now. Hopefully we’ll get the radiation working and start things moving the other direction. This afternoon I had treatment #2and it was much better, only about 30 minutes.

I’m scheduled for 12 radiation treatments as it stands. There’s a possibility when those are finished we may look at some of the areas not being treated this time, but we’ll have to wait and see. No chemo scheduled for now. It would be way too toxic to have all this radiation and chemo going into me at the same time.

I’ll try to get a little more active in my postings; it’s just still a little unbelievable that anyone wants to hear any of this stuff!