@karenjf There are degrees of normal: okay normal and normal normal and some of us have the new normal. Sounds as if you are improving nicely.

@karenjf- Good morning. I had the same reaction as you did and wrote to my Radiologist for an explanation. This is what he said:

My initial question:
"How radiation treatments keep working. In other words what does it keep doing to my tumor? How does it continue to work if treatment has stopped?"

Dr. Willers
"The goal is to have the last tumor cell killed on the last day of radiation. In that regard, radiation does not really work anymore after all the treatments have been delivered. However we have no test to directly measure tumor kill. We can only use a CT to see the delayed indirect effect of radiation where a dead tumor slowly shrinks over time as the dead tissue is being absorbed by the body."

Many of us think that our bodies will respond immediately to treatments and procedures, and why shouldn't we? We've never encountered any of this before and many doctors don't explain well. But it takes our bodies a while to respond and to work to heal us. Perhaps your recovery will be shorter? I think that it depends on our metabolisms too. I think that it also depends on what's left of our original organs, lol, because they have to chip in more to help with recovery.
Does this make sense? How are you today?