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5/24/2022

Radiation

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Honestly, I have a lot of mixed opinions and so many feelings about receiving radiation therapy.  

I am tired of having treatments for cancer and of the side effects.  I long to feel really well again.  I worry about short and long-term risks and side effects.  It's a lot of work. Daily treatments, 5 days/week, about 10 minutes in the machine, but about an hour in and out at the medical center.  The supportive care I am providing myself takes far longer: sauna the night before, exercise in the hour before, four doses of niacinamide in the 2 hours before that treatment, an hour in the Hyperbaric Chamber after the treatment, handfuls of supplements, eating a careful diet. It's work to be alert and advocate for myself. 

I am also increasingly aware of my gratitude for the treatments and for the people who are so committed to providing them with excellence.  I read, hear and witness the advances in the technology designed to make all the treatments I receive more and more effective, safe, and tolerable.  My own health and resilience is a treasure.  Frequenting a teaching hospital is an opportunity to witness a broad spectrum of physical health experienced by people who are receiving treatment.  I experience this as an antidote to self-pity.  

Despite how much time it takes up, I am grateful for the access to and the knowledge of supportive therapies to help me receive and integrate these medical treatments.  

Mostly, I am grateful for the fact that I am tolerating these treatments really well, that they are working to treat my cancer, and I am nearing the end of the most intense phase of treatment. 

I am so very glad that I have been able to continue to practice family medicine and recently to return to a more active work schedule.  I am once again seeing patients in person, offering acupuncture, and in the office 4 days/week.  I rejoice that my practice has weathered the challenges of a pandemic and my own illness.  


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    Elizabeth Alleman, MD is a family physician, acupuncturist practicing and pondering in central Missouri

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