Started 5FU 24/7 chemo this week and the nausea has buried me. I spent half of last night sleeping on the bathroom floor because I didn't have the strength to make it back to the bedroom. I am dreading tonight, that it might be the same, hopefully tomorrow will get a new/different anti nausea med. I dont really have…
I am admittedly a little in shock. After some months of testing today I received the diagnosis that I have bone cancer. I am having a port put in on Monday and go on a 24/7 chemo pack. I came to this site with virtually no support or friends due in large part to my own upbringing. I was trained and conditioned to withdraw.…
I just realized that I have tended to put people into 2 shameful groups of people. worthy unworthy. But really there was only one person in the unworthy group. I sat and thought about it for a long time, I have a few friends that are even more overweight than I, and yet my friendship with them never was determined based on…
This is my first day. I am motivated but needing some support. Have some tests returning and a possible cancer diagnosis. Which makes this all the more important. I cannot afford to fail. This is my life right now. No one else can do it for me, but I do want people who will go through it WITH me.
This is day one. I've never considered myself special..... at all. Everyone in my family was outstanding in some way.... everyone but me. So I had myself a pity party.... a really 7 course pity party that lasted for decades. I look back at YEARS wasted and am filled with shame that I allowed this to happen. I have few…
