Radiation Therapy Treatment #19

Spoke with the radiation therapist today.  She stated the redness on Stella's arm is indeed burns from the treatments. At least they developed towards the end of her treatments so she will recover quicker. 

The Gabapentin that was prescribed to Stella last week is for nerve pain.  Today we were given a secondary pain medication called Tramadol (50mg tablets).  They told us we should give it to Stella as needed (half a tablet every 6-12 hours) but said we could start giving it to her now as a preventive just as we are doing with the Gabapentin.  Again we are opting to do this instead of waiting for signs of pain (which she still has not exhibited).

On today's pics you will notice that although I said the redness on her arm looked better yesterday it definitely looks worse today.  Still not all that bad we think considering they anticipated burns would appear two weeks ago when she had many treatments to follow.  Having it look like this now with only one more treatment to go, Stella can definitely handle it.

One more treatment and last day of boarding tomorrow...