The second week has gone fairly
smoothly – we show up in the radiation waiting room, usually first, and wait
for the nurse to summon Cindy. She has
had some pain this week, but mostly in fairly brief, seemingly random spurts.
Eating is, so far, slow but not much
affected by pain. But then there’s the
parsley factor. It’s tough to chew it up
without sufficient saliva (at least that seems to be the cause) and it resists
being swallowed whole. Same applies to
the skins of peas and corn but one can puree those. The saliva substitute approach hasn’t been
perfected yet, but she’ll continue to work on it. We just have to get by without a bit of green
on sprinkled on things.