Coming Full Circle

    I am well underway with radiation.  I am now on the otherside of halfway finished.  It is a very interesting process that really takes about 5 minutes.  For all you math teachers out there there is a process they do before each radiation treatment.  I can see the reflection of what that are doing and when I lay on the table they are pulling out a metric ruler and making sure I line up to the exact measuremet each time buy the lines I have my skin.  After they do all the measuring I try very hard not to move!
     The first few days I had really no side effects but come day 6--- yikes what a sore throat!  The doctors told me this would happen and when the first few days I didn't feel anything afterwards I was pretty sure those side effects wouldn't happen to me--well I was very very wrong :)  It is not a traditional sore throat rather it feels more like sand paper on your skin but when you swallow.  I saw the doctor yesterday to talk about it and he said that the nerve endings on the esophagus are inflammed.  Who knew?
    This all got me thinking...this past July is when I go very sick and sore throat that lead me to go to the doctor and then only discover I had Hodgkins Lymphoma.  Only this time I know this sore throat right now is making me better- ironic?  I for sure have come full circle since July and will be soon on the road to full recovery.  Till then I will continue my liquid tylenol, cough drops and this "miracle" mouthwash they gave to me to take like a shot.   Ha if only!
     I have been noticing my hair is coming back in to the areas I lost it.  I swear I feel like I study my scalp every night like it is a science experiment.  It was kind of funny a few months back and well maybe sad at the same time, Bobby and I were talking about our balding stories together.  Who would have ever thought we would have such similar stories of emotions on losing hair!  lol   Audrey right now probably has more hair than the both of us at the moment--and frankly her hair just rocks!   But my hair is coming in slowly, but it is coming.
    My sister Mary spent a little over 3 weeks her helping with Audrey and we just couldn't thank her enough.  I know it was tough being away from her own family, so thank you all! So life continues on and I am liking that.   Audrey just got baptized this past Sunday finally!  We have been trying to do this for quite sometime now and it finally all worked out with Bobby being home.  :)