There's really no way to prepare yourself for the after shocks of chemotherapy.
You lie there feeling more sick than you can imagine. Your body has been fed a lot of poison and it is reeling!
This is when you know that you are seriously ill.
All of the biopsies haven't even healed yet. 24 Biopsies on each side. A lot of pain.
I have now been in so many imaging machines with the medical workers dressed in Haz-Mat suits administering to me, that I really am expecting to be able to glow in the dark.
Now with this chemotherapy, I am to give myself shots in my stomach every night for five nights after Day One. Starting on Day Two, I give myself shots to help build up white blood cells that were destroyed by the chemotherapy. They literally build you up so that you can be torn down, i.e., have another chemo treatment. You will be wiped out and you will need someone to drive you home each time. Check - I had that.
You keep getting chemo for three - four months - unless something stops your chemo treatments.
That happened to me. I had a side effect called neuropathy. Meaning that you lose the ablility to feel in your feet and in your hands, especially your toes and your fingers. It was hard to walk for a while. This complication caused me to have my last two chemo treatments cancelled.
Then, there are times when your body can't take a chemotherapy treatment. That happened to me also. I had to be rehydrated and wait another week for my treatment.
Yes, I had no hair. That happened three weeks after the first treatment.
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