Exactly seven days into radiation, I have started to burn. The right side of my chest is achy and tender, pinkish and slightly damaged already. It’s not too bad, just like the first sunburn of summer, and is readily relieved by the application of the prescribed lotion that I smear on four or five times a day. (At $57 a tube, that stuff better work.) It’s early to start burning, but the radiation oncologist isn’t too worried. Although he did peer at me curiously at our first meeting yesterday and say, “It’s highly unusual that a patient would start to burn this early.”
All I could do was laugh and say, “I’m 34, and I’ve already had two cancers. I suppose I am highly unusual. Now, what do we do about it?”
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