My Pink Square and the Hot Shot

9-29-12

I have a pink square on my chest from radiation.  It’s so bizarre, I feel like I want to stand in the middle of the yard and just say it 20 times!  My doctor tells me it’s perfectly normal and very mild.  But since I have never seen a pink square on anybody else’s chest, I have no reference point.  Pure 100% aloe vera applied 4 times a day keeps me pretty comfortable.  I wonder what the other cancer ladies in the waiting room down in radiology would say if I walked in one morning and said “I have a pink square on my chest!”  They are all so sweet, I am sure they would be quick to tell me it’s normal and mild too.  Because hey.  We can all sit around with pink squares on our bodies outlined in fat blue marker.

I complained to my radiologist this week about my fatigue from the radiation.  He leaned forward with genuine concern and asked me what kind of fatigue I am experiencing.  I got really serious, and told him that I have to sleep 6 hours a night, I can actually nap for real on Sunday afternoon, and am quite content to sit on the couch and watch the “Garling’s Get Ready for the Next Day” show on the weekdays without otherwise participating.  He smiled, put down his little book, and gently told me my symptoms were very mild.  OK, mild to YOU, Hot Shot, but it’s fatigue to me, and you ought to write it in your little book.  Next week I am totally making something up so he will write in his book.  Sheesh.

Isn’t the Lord good?  Praise Jesus, my fatigue is mild and unworthy of the ink in my radiologist’s pen!

And I have a pink square on my chest!