Posted on December 29, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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WARNING: Gross pictures included Many of you have heard my stories about radiation and others actually watched it happen, but what you may not have seen unless you work with me or live with me is all the disgusting things that happened to my…
Category: Where are we now?Tags: cancer, cancer blog, fear, gross, Healing, nose bleeds, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, rope saliva, salivary gland tumor, side effects, skin toxicity, tongue ulcers, tumor
Posted on November 3, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Post-op you may have read How It Healed that chronicled the progress of my incision and drain removal as it healed up, so I thought that it was only fair if I created one for my skin toxicity and it’s recovery from…
Category: Where are we now?Tags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, faith, fatigue, Healing, marriage, pathology, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, side effects, skin toxicity, tongue ulcers, tumor
Posted on October 30, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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Yes…there’s a week 7 update (and yes, it’s late) but thankfully it’s not an update on week 7 of treatment. It’s week 1 of healing after 6 wretched weeks of treatment (Woo!) but also the week where there is the highest dose of radiation…
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: cancer, cancer blog, clinical research, fatigue, fear, fraction, Healing, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, reflection, side effects, skin toxicity, tongue ulcers, week 7
Posted on October 23, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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I’ve somewhat avoided this post for a few days, mostly because I was too tired to think and also because I didn’t know if I could do the specialness of this day justice. October 20th was a day I had been anticipating for every…
Category: Treatment UpdatesTags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, family, fatigue, fear, fraction, Healing, last day, last treatment, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, reflection, sharon spencer, side effects, skin toxicity, tongue ulcers, uab, week 6
Posted on October 23, 2017
by Valerie Powell
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The final week of treatment is finally over, and I cant even begin to count how many times I thought it would never get here. Reading back through some of the posts, I already don’t remember some of the smaller details of things that…
Category: By the Week, Treatment UpdatesTags: birmingham, cancer, cancer blog, fatigue, fear, final week, Healing, radiation oncology, radiation therapy, radiation treatment, side effects, skin toxicity, tongue ulcers, uab, week 6
