Nothing to report.
Really, nothing.
OK, I was more tired this week, but I don't know whether that's the tiredness building up, or because last weekend I went out on the Saturday so I only had Sunday for laying-about-doing-nothing. This weekend I went out on Saturday again, but being a bank holiday I get the Monday off treatment and so still get two days to do nothing.
Oh, I do appear to have a bald patch appearing, behind/above my right ear. Really difficult for me to see, I think I'll have to get a photo taken by someone else just so as I can see it. As that may indicate, still not all that significant.
I successfully did nothing yesteday (Sunday) and my plan for today is pretty similar. Going off now to build myself a sofa-nest and choose which films to watch...
Five treatments left - all one day out due to the bank holiday, so last session/end of 'week 6' is in fact next Monday (7th). So you get an extra bit of silence before my next nothing-much-to-say blog.
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"I hope you haven't all been waiting with bated breath for this one."
Might have. Nice to see "bated" spelled correctly.
"Nothing to report."
Good.
"I was more tired this week… Oh, I do appear to have a bald patch appearing…"
That's not nothing!
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Good to hear from you again. Thinking of you and hoping all goes well.
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Is there anything they can do, as part of the treatment, whereby they can show you or allow you to visualise the effect of the treatment?
Would that help, or would it just be too gross?
Best wishes for the remaining four zaps, or whatever they call them.
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During treatment, there's the possibility of local inflammation - which is why you can get a headache. That's generally near the start, when the response can be inflammation but before the tumour cells start shutting down (at which point there is nothing shouting that it needs to be inflamed).
We're not expecting to see any shrinkage of my tumour - because it is quite calcified, it can't shrink, it can just become a dormant pebble instead of a slowly growing one. Even if I were to have a shrinking type, I don't think we'd expect to see anything during the treatment.
I think my next scan will be six months after treatment (to be confirmed tomorrow when I see the consultant for the last time on-treatment). That's to allow for any short-term effects to go away, before we can see what the treatment has achieved. Not that it's expected to be anything visible in my case...what we'll probably (hopefully) see going forward is just the same thing scan after scan after scan - visualising the effect that the radiotherapy has stopped it from growing!