Radiation is half over...is that a light at the end of the tunnel?

Jimmy is feeling good through radiation.  He has had 13 of his 25 treatments.  Amazingly, the process takes longer to set up than to actually get the treatment.  They take x-rays, put his leg in place by lining up his tattoos to make sure they have the right spot and ZAP!  That felt like a Batman phrase...LOL!  I know that I have been very serious and often sad about how are lives have been heading this year but for the first time in a while, I am hopeful.  Hopeful that the treatment is working and that I will have my husband back and Logan will have his Dad back.

Jimmy does have some soreness in his leg where he gets the radiation but nothing like the pain he used to have before chemo.  And, the radiation definitely doesn't make him feel like chemo did.  As everyone said it would be, this is so much easier on his body.  He has his coloring back, he doesn't look so tired and his hair is starting to come back darker in some spots.  The hair on his head has a dark tint to it but it feels so soft...like baby's hair.  It is still very short but it is there.  The one thing Jimmy really missed was his eyebrows and they too are coming back.

I think the reason I feel hopeful is because the radiation isn't taking such a toll on Jimmy and the fact that his hair is starting to return.  It just seems more normal or at least the old normal.  I want Jimmy to be whole and healthy.  He will most likely have scans in the next few weeks to see how the radiation is doing and whether or not the nodules in his lungs are doing anything.  I pray they are still the same, which means they are nothing, and that his tumor has gotten smaller.

Once radiation is finished, there will be about a three week break before surgery.  He has spoken with the surgeon and she is confident that it should a routine surgery.  Nonetheless, Jimmy is still a little nervous since he has never had surgery at all but that is to be expected.  We'll cross that bridge later.

I once again ask for your prayers that Jimmy will continue to be healed by the treatment.  Thank you again for letting me share our journey with you...all 31 countries of you.