Okay, now it's done

Really, it is. Adrienne had her last radiation treatment yesterday afternoon and promptly washed off the markings they used to align her. They were bright blue, looking oddly like Indian war paint. Adrienne was wearing high-collared shirts to hide the markings and now she doesn't have to. She says it looks like she has a tan on the radiated areas and it hurts like a sunburn, but there are no other obvious reminders of the treatment right now. Hopefully, her sense of taste and smell will return soon. She has a check up with the BMT doctor tomorrow and then should have at least a couple of weeks off with no hospital appointments.

Adrienne will have PET and CT scans in about a month to verify that she is in remission once again. Since the lymph nodes in her neck are completely gone and her chest xray is clear, we have every reason to believe that she is in remission. With today's treatments, it is unlikely that Adrienne is cured, though we can always continue to hope. We are very fortunate that her disease has been slow growing and that her chest is clear, neither of which has occurred the case in the past.