For all you good folks suffering radiation depression, which happens to some of us after 150 blasts (my "protocol" totals 173 blasts, six per session plus five and I've done 169 of them), here are some antidepressants that have worked for me.

I might be poor company today, but I'm not totally useless: I did an entire painting--start to finish, including painting a frame to go with it--of one type of rainbow wrasse.

Okay, I did really well the first five and a half weeks, but this last week I'm hurting, burning in sensitive places, depressed, cranky, and eager for the end.

The first four weeks of radiation (20 treatments) were easy, but now I'm starting to hurt.

At seventeen blasts, I'm now medium rare and just over halfway through my radiation treatments. Apparently, according to a friend, I am now "half-baked." I'm keeping up my exercise program, walking forty minutes four days a week, lifting weights (only five pounds with my left arm and both legs, half that with my right arm) two days for forty minutes.