I have been feeling good this weekend. The old burnt skin has been gradually peeling away to reveal smooth unblemished new skin. I am healing! I am healing! It's been coming off in the daily process of bathing, oiling with emu oil, rubbing off from clothing, etc. I have not been picking.
I have three more boosts to go, and so I am taking this as a good sign. Now I know for sure that there will be no blistering and all the awful things that brings. Something else I've noticed ... the scar from my lumpectomy has disappeared! Everyone has always had a hard time finding it -- it's pretty funny when the doctor looks at my breast and has to ask "Can anyone see where the scar is? I can't find it!" and everyone starts looking. I always could tell -- there was a faint outline but now I can't! I don't know if it is really the emu oil but I am now religiously putting it on the surgery scar from the port insertion ... maybe it will do it's magic here too. The scar from the lymph node removal has also disappeared. It's harder to tell with this one whether it was burnt off by radiation or healed by emu oil. I am just grateful not to be carrying the reminders of this terrible disease.
It will be so good on Wednesday to mark off the end of another part of this journey ... one more leg of this journey will be done ... done ... done!
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