Nipple

Showing my breasts and talking about boobs, nipples and poop now all seem like normal everyday conversation to me. I almost pulled my shirt down at dinner the other night to show off my crusty red and bumpy nipple but caught myself. I do that so often with treatments and doctor visits for so many different people that it now feels socially acceptable.

That nipple has been giving me trouble for almost 2 weeks now and while they thought it was not something to worry about at first they then decided to be very worried about it. Now it seems to be improving. They are doing a biopsy tomorrow so I should know for sure by early next week if it is cancerous or not.

When the radiation oncologist decided that my nipple was cancerous she decided to up my radiation treatments to twice a day. That totally wiped me out. I am now done with treatment but I have been sleeping an absolutely ridiculous amount. My cats love it. The last time I did radiation it took months to recover, but that was 60 treatments and this time was only 10 treatments so hopefully the recovery is faster.

Yesterday I had my first float in a sensory deprivation chamber. It was awesome and both relaxing and stimulating. I went in and out of consciousness and had dreams about my future. My muscles relaxed, although I think that next time will be better. I still had some worry that my head would go under and I jumped at every weird sound I heard. I bought a starter 3 pack of floats. Tomorrow I get acupuncture.