I tend to handle medical things pretty well. This one is a bit different, since I'm deliberately creating a small risk of a very deadly cancer to decrease a much higher risk that this one will return. That doesn't sit well with me..
I'm doing a variation on zentangle as an intentional effort to create something positive from the experience - I suppose controlling something I can control. (I did fire my first set of doctors, since they were creating chaos every time I turned around.) I've got a drawing started - I'll add a "tangle" to it each day for 17 days. I haven't decided whether I'll do anything on the weekends or not. I've included the radiation markers & the crane my radiological oncologist gave me at the first visit that I'll weave into the drawing.
Here's what it looks like on day 3: 
A bit of swelling and pain - but nothing significant. The darn stickers & marks won't stay on. I redraw them 2x/day & they still have to redraw them.
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