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Does radiation therapy affect the immune system?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Sep 24 10:11am | Replies (7)Comment receiving replies
You may have been exposed by some thoughtless and ill-mannered person or persons in a waiting room, someone who did not even bother to cover his mouth with his hands while coughing, much less wear a mask. Covering your mouth while coughing used to be basic common sense and good manners. One guy in the lab waiting area, who was doing his best to hack up an entire lung, was wearing a T-shirt that said, "My mother said I could be anything I wanted to be when I grew up, so now I'm an a**hole." What can you say to a man who already has his own number and acts accordingly? Instead, I had to take all the precautions. See photos. I stayed home when not at a Mayo appointment because chemo lowers immunity and I knew I did not want Covid during chemo. Not sure how radiation impacts the immune system.
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I am not allowed to express my thoughts about the thoughtless, who like to be mean and aggressive in my area because I wear a mask. I am certainly allowed to laugh when you express those thoughts.
I wear a mask indoors to protect others, my husband who has a bone marrow cancer, and one of my dearest friends who has the same cancer.
Sadly around here, most don’t even think about that, they like to make it a political thing.
When I was on chemo and as my doctor explained, “you have about 4 white cells right now”, I wore a mask and/or kept my distance from humans. If you are like I was, you need it to mask all the smells in the world anyway. 😂😂
I love your glasses too. I don’t believe radiation significant affects your immune system, but it can’t help and chemo definitely does.
How far out from chemotherapy are you? Are you done with radiation now?