When You’re Excited for Radiation… You Know It’s Been a Journey

When You’re Excited for Radiation… You Know It’s Been a Journey

🌼 Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026

⚡ Energy: Cautiously Optimistic

💓 Status: Game On

😊 Outlook: Let’s Do This

Today I got THE call from radiology.

And guess what?

I can start radiation tomorrow!

Now let me just pause for a second and acknowledge how strange that sentence sounds. I don’t think most people ever get excited to start a treatment that is widely known for being… well… pretty evil.

But here I am.

Actually excited.

Does that make me a little sick in the head?

Maybe.

But after everything we’ve been through on this journey so far, moving forward feels a whole lot better than sitting around waiting for the next phone call. The good news is that the measurements they took yesterday didn’t change enough to affect my treatment plan. Which means I do not have to redo the CT scan or the measurements.

Huge win.

That also means we didn’t have to drain the expander and start the whole radiation planning process over again.

So tomorrow morning I officially begin the next chapter of this adventure.

Before we hung up, the nurse gave me my final instructions:

• Shower before bed tonight
• Use the lotion with calendula like I was instructed
• Use it again in the morning before my appointment

Yes ma’am.

I will happily follow every instruction if it means we can finally keep this train moving.

Tomorrow we start radiation.

Let’s do this.

💗 Tina –
One Badass Day at a Time