Four Days After Radiation Therapy

I was very fortunate that during my radiation treatments it went very smoothly.  However, at my last treatment, my skin started to break open.  Over the weekend, my skin got worse and worse.  The black, dead skin is peeling and now there is raw, red exposed skin.  It has been very painful and hard to sleep at night.  I have a picture to share.  Hope it doesn't gross you out too much!

The white is the medicine called Silvadene.  The greenish stuff is my dead skin.  I saw the doctor today and it is progressing as expected.  He told me by the weekend, I should feel less pain and a new layer of skin should be forming.

I shared the photo so that others who may go through this can see what could potentially happen.  This is worse than I ever anticipated.  My doctor told me to take some Percocet for the pain and it has been helping.  Wish I would have taken it over the weekend since I already had some left over from my surgery.

Going to rest now.