41. Radiotherapy, part 7

To call the effects of Radiotherapy "Side Effects" is to do them a great disservice

As expected over the coming weeks the effects of the radiation would become more and more noticeable, and more and more severe.

Additional Effect #1

Skin

The skin on my neck, chin, cheeks, ears, throat and shoulders would turn pink then red and sore like sunburn. Eventually drying, turning brown, crisping and flaking off. At it's most extreme there were even large areas of broken skin, lesions that were raw and then scabbed over. I would wake in piles of dandruff-like skin dust and gossamer ghosts of my chin or ears or throat lying on the pillow.

                  

These pictures were taken on the 9th and 10th April 2012 the last two in the 13th. It got much worse...

much, much worse.