With this chemo regime I take steriod pills and anti nausea pills for three days - the day before chemo, chemo day, and the following day. This means that…
In reading the chapter ‘The Cost of Appearances’ in Arthur Frank’s (1991) At the Will of the Body, reminded me of my first Doxorubicin (Adriamycin other wise referred to as A chemo) chemotherapy injection. I wrote about the experience very briefly in a post The First Day Of Chemo on my blog. In my blog post,… Read More »
One of the side effects that some people face during and after chemotherapy (and cancer treatment even without chemotherapy) is called "chemo fog". Heck AnneMarie Ciccarella used it as…
A friend (Marie Ennis O’Connor) has asked me to blog about something that I’ve learned through my experiences with breast cancer. I went back through my blogs, looking for…
At one point this afternoon I realized that what I was feeling might just be fatigue - rather than tiredness. I've been struggling with a cold all week and that…
Effective treatment of established CIPN, however, has yet to be found. Lastly, paclitaxel causes a unique acute pain syndrome which has been hypothesised to be caused by neurologic injury. No drugs,…
I've gotten pretty good at interpreting what the pathology reports say, but I'm not great at what it means. Just before my oncologist walked into the room I said…
