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Continue reading →: Chemotherapy Side Effects – Physical & Mental Lethargy– November 2023 // Chemotherapy session 1/4 – My body felt like it got run over by a train a hundred times over. There was something that hurts somewhere each day. Just when I thought that it couldn’t get any worse, guess what? It did. I was so sleep deprived…
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Continue reading →: Chemotherapy Side Effects – Day 9– October 2023 // Chemotherapy session 1/4 – The nineth day was when all the symptoms got significantly better. My headaches had gone away and I started working again (from home). I could function like a normal human being once more. I still had some shortness of breath lingering around,…
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Continue reading →: Pillow Talk– November 2023 – One night before bed, I decided to check in with my husband to see how’s he holding up. I wanted to know his mental state as he’s going through all this with me. Was I whining too much and made him worry? Was he silently suffering?…
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Continue reading →: Chemotherapy Side Effects – Hair Loss– October 2023 // Chemotherapy session 1/4 – The day that I dreaded had finally arrived. Exactly 15 days after the first chemo, my hair started to fall. I read somewhere that 60% of chemo patients suffer from hair loss. Let me make that 100%. I was feeling hopeful about…
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Continue reading →: Chemotherapy Side Effects – Backaches And More– October 2023 // Chemotherapy session 1 /4- Towards the end of my first week, I started having pains at my lower back. I knew I wasn’t supposed to go out or have skin contact with strangers, but it got so unbearable that I couldn’t sleep the entire night. So…
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Continue reading →: Chemotherapy Side Effects – Shortness of Breath– October 2023 // Chemotherapy session 1/4 – Well, this sure didn’t show up when I Googled for chemo side effects. So it came as a huuuge shock to us. Into my second week, I experienced shortness of breath by just walking from my room to the kitchen. Inside my…
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Continue reading →: Chemotherapy Side Effects – Heart Terrors– October 2023 // Chemotherapy session 1/4 – Within a week after my first session, my palpitations got bad to worse. In fact, it became such a problem for me during the entire duration of my chemo sessions. The palpitations kept terrifying me into thinking that I might have a…
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Continue reading →: Chemotherapy Side Effects – Bodily Functions– October 2023 // Chemotherapy: session 1/4 – I felt drowsy for the rest of the evening. And felt even worse the next day. I started the day swallowing down a few pills given to me by the hospital, mainly the ondansetron to prevent nausea. This is good stuff because…
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Continue reading →: Travel Plans– October 2023 – Our plan at this point was to shelve all travel plans. I can’t even go to the mall! My doctors warned of possible infections, because chemotherapy can and will significantly lower my body’s immunity; and that I should not go to crowded places and must practice…
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I’m Eva
I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer at the age of 35 and I want to share my journey of overcoming cancer and my experience with chemotherapy.
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