Alex_The_Hedgehog on 24 January 2020
| curl-6 said: Officially halfway through radiation therapy; 14 sessions done, 14 more to go.
The medical setting does pose some challenges due to my OCD, but my doctor and the rest of the staff are really nice, as are my fellow patients.
The technology is amazing; they’re now able to hit the tumor with millimetre precision, with the aperture of the emitter changing shape to match the outline of the tumor as it goes around you, so it zaps the whole thing from every angle. They can also control what they call the "run up speed" so that it doesn't reach full intensity til it's passed through the healthy tissue and reaches the tumor.
It’s still really scary having cancer, but I think I’ve finally gotten over the initial icy shock and am focusing on working through each stage of my treatment, one day at a time.
I’m trying to think of it as just the latest hurdle in my life, like being housebound due to OCD when I was 18, or overcoming self-harm at 22. And if my past challenges got me to where I am today, then once I get through this I’ll be unstoppable.
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That's the spirit! Keep it up, my friend!
By the way, I don't know if I told you, but a friend of my mother had cancer last year, and she did radiation therapy too. A couple of weeks later, the doctor said her tumor got destroyed. She still have to do a surgery to remove what's left of it, though. But yeah, she's cured.
It's good to see that medicine and technology are evolving like that.
