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Cancer in Quarantine Diaries: Free Tattoos
Just not the one I expected
Who knew that when you go through cancer that would you have the opportunity to get a free tattoo, or in my case FOUR?! Not I!
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in early February 2020 I was inundated with information. Some from Google. Some from friends. And most importantly, information from my doctors. It still rocks my world that I have an oncologist and not just one, but two! I have a medical oncologist who oversees most of my care and my chemo and post chemo treatment plans. And I have a radiation oncologist who provides my radiation treatment plan. Side note — they didn’t agree with each other when it came to the initial treatment plan, but they ended up deciding more treatment was better. Fingers crossed that was the right path because otherwise I went through a heck of a lot for nothing.
There was so much information that I blocked off the treatment into phases and there are just too many to note.
I’m currently in my post lumpectomy/post chemo daily radiation phase.
I finished chemotherapy almost three weeks ago and began radiation earlier this week. I have flashed so many people in the last five months that I could probably be my own Mardi Gras parade. Can one person be a parade? If so, that person is…
