Radiation is our friend

We went for our first radiation consult today. Lots of waiting but then it's not like you're going to go elsewhere to collect your doseage. We came away knowing that Carolin will get 5 weeks of treatment (on every weekday) with four guns. A treatment is 2-3 minutes long but the positioning ahead of time takes a while. For her trouble she gets a reduced chance of reoccurence. She also gets one or more of: harder soft tissue, darker skin in that area, burns ("we'll give you some cream"), fatigue (1 in 3 get it), lung scarring (you don't use your upper lung much to breath so you won't notice it, he said), but she won't glow in the dark.

This doctor wasn't sure that the collar bone area had been checked sufficiently for cancer. He's requiring an ultra sound before the radiation can start. That's tomorrow.