Cup Noodles, Tokamaks & One Very Crispy Boob

Cup Noodles, Tokamaks & One Very Crispy Boob

🌼 Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2026

⚡ Energy: Fried, itchy, and slightly delusional

❤️‍🩹 Status: Officially entering the “crispy” stage of radiation

😒 Outlook: Hoping this is the peak before things start healing

When I woke up this morning and looked at my chest, I knew immediately that things had escalated overnight.

The color was darker.
The welts were bigger.
The bumps looked angrier.

Basically, my boob and the entire side of my torso decided to enter what I’m now calling the “extra crispy” phase of radiation treatment.

(See photographic evidence above. Yes, I added a heart over the bump that could potentially be mistaken for the beginning of a nipple. You’re welcome.)

At this point my skin looks like it lost a bar fight with the sun.

So on the drive to radiation this morning, my brain started wandering — which is always dangerous territory these days.

I started wondering…

When they’re radiating my boob, does the saline inside the expander heat up the same way my skin does?

Because if it does, that would technically make my boob something like a Cup Noodles container.

Think about it.

Perfect size.
Add some boiling radiation heat.
Wait a few minutes.

Boom.

Lunch.

If we worked this right, maybe my Breathing Olympics routine could double as the cooking timer.

Deep breath… hold it… noodles halfway done.

Deep breath… hold it again… add seasoning packet.

Because honestly, when you’re driving 45–60 minutes each way for less than twenty minutes on the table, it feels like we should at least be able to multitask.

But the heat coming off my red-hot boob this morning did make me curious about something else.

What’s actually hotter than the surface of the sun?

Naturally, I Googled it.

The answer: a fusion nuclear experiment called a tokamak, which can reach temperatures around 100,000 degrees Celsius.

Good to know.

Because judging by the way my chest feels right now, I’m pretty sure the radiation department is secretly running their own little tokamak experiment directly under my left boob.

Science is amazing.

My skin, however, is not impressed.

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