Your First Chemo

Going to your first chemotherapy is a very scary day. When you walk in you see other patients who are further along in their treatments than you, and you cannot help but feel scared of the reality you see in their eyes. Before you got the cancer diagnosis did you see a cancer patient and automatically feel bad for them? Now the realization that you are now the one that people will feel bad for makes a sick feeling in your stomach. The patients in the chemo room look at you and smile, or do the head nod but you … Continue reading

My First Oncology Appointment

So my oncologist just told me that he could treat me this time BUT when it came back he could not. I am sitting there in a small room with my husband and the doctor and the room feels like it is getting smaller. Did this doctor just tell me that basically a recurrence was a given and it would kill me? I was only 35 years old my youngest child just turned 3 and my oldest was just 6. Was this some cruel cosmic joke? Did I really do something so bad that this is it? Did I take … Continue reading