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In reply to the discussion: New member of the club here [View all]PennyK
(2,312 posts)73. Chemo 3 yesterday
Wow, everyone in the chemo lounge looked so much worse off than me. Some of them looked as though their health had been neglected for decades (one woman was toothless). one woman, in her 70s, with lung cancer, was starting a daily chemo regimen at the same time as radiation!
I guess I don't have it so bad. I switched to an e-cigarette over two years ago, after smoking for more than forty years, and my recent chest X-ray came back picture-perfect (my mother has emphysema, but her dad died of lung cancer at age 57).
My bad stretch will probably start tomorrow. I'll be tired and still running to the bathroom every twenty minutes. Think I'll try the prescription med, Lomotil, and see if that's better than Imodium.
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Welcome to the club nobody wants to join. Knowledge conquers fear, so ask questions.
alfredo
Mar 2016
#2
So far I haven't lost much on my head, mostly my beard. They say it will grow back, but different.
alfredo
Apr 2016
#48
Thanks for the report and happy to hear things on balance went well ...
slipslidingaway
Aug 2016
#96
I've been wanting to try that, but now it seems I have an aversion to potatoes.
alfredo
Aug 2017
#115