I am 12 treatments in of radiation (half way) and have developed small water blisters on my upper part of my chest. I would love to scratch them to pieces but know this will only complicate things. I feel like a kid who has chicken pox and should tape oven mitts on my hands to prevent the scratching.
The urge sometimes to scratch is high. So instead I look like Napoleon and lay my hand over the area in hopes it will calm down. This is not an act to perform in public though..just sayin'.
I have been using Lubriderm for sensitive skin but I think it is time to move onto something with some medication in it as I still have 13 more treatments to go through. At the rate I am going, I will have weeping skin by the end of this..again did I mention how attractive this process is. Just when you think, this isn't so bad..whammo!
I see the doctor tomorrow..supposedly.. as up until now I haven't had any reason to actually see him so he has not come out to play. They forewarned me that it would be around my third week before anything would happen and boy are they right. One day my skin was slightly tanned with a ting of red and the next it had little bumps on it. Then those bumps became itchy ..I am blaming it on the rubber pad days which brings the radiation to the surface and causes my skin to get more red on those days.
I have to keep reminding myself that I am half way through this cycle and I would rather do this than the last three cycles of chemo any day. So wish me luck as I go through the next two weeks looking like I have scabies with my hand in my shirt and hoping my husband doesn't buy a shirt which reads "I'm NOT with Scratchy".
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