Yesterday they reduced the radiation field along my right armpit and left clavicle (as there wasn't much activity there to begin with), and stopped radiating my throat. With the 2 days rest from the weekend + no longer having my throat radiated, I can finally eat things and not have it be painful going down (mostly). I do have quite a bit of dry mouth though. It should take about a month to get better, about 1 year to go back to normal (or less).
Oh yeah: I can't taste anything. Everything has a weird neutral bitter iron/bloody taste to it. Except for tomatoes. They just burn my mouth like they're fire-peppers. Coke tastes like fizzy metal. Bread tastes like bitter dirt with some yeast in it. Taste should gradually come back over the next month or so, with complex tastes returning within 3 months. So in about 3 months, I can enjoy that Scotch again to its fullest. However now, it's not much fun eating or drinking, more of a chore.
Me: I think I have thrush.
Doctor: Let's see... hmm, that looks painful.
Me: Yeah.
Doctor: It's probably not thrush though, it's probably just from the radiation.
Me: Great.
I'll get to keep my mask after tomorrow (probably in my storage unit as it's kind of big), I'll put up a picture of that next time.
Here's a photo of the crab Cioppino soup I made the other week that I previously mentioned. It was JUST as my throat and mouth started acting up from the radiation:
The crab was no problem to eat, but the tomatoes kind of burnt like fire going down.
I'm also getting my port flushed tomorrow, by my old oncology nurses after my radiation treatment. I kind of miss seeing them. I have to have my port flushed once a month or used once a month- it's been awhile. In about a month or so after I've recovered from radiation a bit more I'll have it taken out (and recover from that) with maybe one more port flush in there.
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