This is my first Blog, Yep I’m a new-be, I want anyone who just wants to speak their minds about side effects of your journey to feel free to vent. but let keep it clean ok?
Helping each other through this Journey is important to me and to have others who know what your going through helps.
so Welcome to my journey and I look forward to being a part of yours. R
rhondamcgrail 
Ok here’s your first comment haha we’re both bald
Ya and My hair will come back but yours is gone for good lol
You wouldn’t look like Homer if you had hair! And I think you are beautiful with or without hair. I cannot speak for anyone who has had or has cancer but I can speak for the one who has to watch someone they love go through it. It is one of the hardest things I have ever done and I wish I was not so far away from you while you are going through this. I love you and admire everything you do and everything I have learned from you! You are an inspiration to many including myself!
Thank you Miss heather I love You
Some of the side effects I have experienced are longer lasting than I would ever expect or want.
On the physical side, I still to this day, 11 years later, fight to keep my “innards” working correctly. Constant problems with weakness of the processing of foods in order for my body to absorb what is neccessary. I spend lots of $ on vitamins, minerals and all that jazz. Constant work on keeping the osteoporosis in my hips from getting worse. I’m to young for that !! OUCH . Not a complaint – just facts. I wish I had been told about all this while in chemo. I would have been more proactive then. But, maybe they talk more about it now a day. Everyone needs to know that no natural remedy interferes with or alters what chemotherapy does. Chemo will strip your body of EVERYTHING so you need to put it back ! And as soon as possible.
The other side effect I had experienced was the loss of friends. Seemed people just didn’t know how to approach me and talk to me – so they didn’t. That was heart breaking ( at the time ) but I was to busy keeping strong to put ANY concern in their weakness. As they say, must not have been a friend to begin with 🙂 On the other hand, I made a friend who will be with me for the rest of eternity , unfortunatley, cancer has taken her home so she is still with me in my heart and spirit. Love you Lois .
I hope and pray that with today’s awareness of cancer and it’s effect on everyone, people aren’t so apt to turn away. That people embrase those with cancer and embrase life. Besides, it’s a Love thing -THAT doesn’t hurt. For some of the people who blew through my life back then are back in my world. Why not ! They are good people, just had a life hick-up as I say. Thank you for being a friend. Reminds me of a song . . . . never mind 🙂 For the others that aren’t I pray that your lives are filled to capacity with love and to carry on.
The other point needed to be made is do not be affraid to get second , third or even fourth opinions !!!! It’s your body – it’s your life. Be good to it
Seems this round is different, hmmm like the rest wasn’t. I hate what this is doing to the inside of me.
I began eating apricot seeds, what I read is it kills cancer cells and anything i can kill these suckers with im going to try.
Sue your a fighter and you beat cancer to a pulp, fighting like a girl… we got this beat.
The rest is a great life. love ya sista”
my first blog also. I guess what I’ve learned from seeing what uv been thru with cancer is that if someone has cancer, everybody who loves them feels their pain. I may be far away but I have cryed for you so many times. and prayed. Lord have I prayed. I love you.
Today is Myles day for blood work, I know he wont have to have his blood building meds because I got him on B 6 and B 12.and he has been so much better since starting them. I don’t question what I take for natural stuff, I know it is working, Im in hope that the apricot seeds are as good as I have heard.
I’ve just been enlightened to Chlorella. The magic of Chlorella. The positive properties are to large for me to print here but look it up. I have been feeling like the ‘ol me since taking it ( powder form ) . It tastes like grass – Not Bad ! 🙂
Honestly, what you have been doing with being so open and ” here I am ” with your cancer has helped people in our know be more comfortable with approaching someone with cancer. Soon to be someone who HAD cancer !! I think even back 11 years ago, there were venues to go to and have open sessions with others about what is going on, it still was a bit taboo. It’s a new world these days and Im proud of your bringing it to the forefront.
Check out Chlorella AND Glucosamine with MSM for joints and bones too 😀
Love you too Sista”
we are here for each other
a day of healing on you tube search 2x2zoo and its healing 1-18 they are all short and its what I do to help me heal, check them out also letter to :Dear Chemo
couldn’t figure out why i couldn’t sleep all night because every bone in my body hurt. well, after getting up to see it had rained, I realized why. this chemo really effects every inch of my body, the arthritis gets worse by the day, i already have my moms hands, what a mess, guess ill have to look into surgery for a couple fingers once im better because i wont live with trying to point straight and fingers heading right
When all the side effects are gone, Chemo doesnt seem so bad, but knowing another round is coming soon makes me sad. even though its the last one, i know what im in for so I try to just keep busy so the bad thoughts don’t have time to linger long with in my brain.
Chlorella is a type of algae that grows in fresh water. The whole plant is used to make nutritional supplements and medicine.
Most of the chlorella that is available in the U.S. is grown in Japan or Taiwan. It is processed and made into tablets and liquid extracts. These extracts contain “chlorella growth factor,” which is described as a water-soluble extract of chlorella containing chemicals including amino acids, peptides, proteins, vitamins, sugars, and nucleic acids.
Be aware that chlorella products can vary significantly depending on the way “the crop” used to make them was cultivated, harvested, and processed. Investigators have found that dried preparation of chlorella can contain from 7% to 88% protein, 6% to 38% carbohydrate, and 7% to 75% fat.
As a medicine, chlorella is used for preventing cancer, reducing radiation treatment side effects, stimulating the immune system, improving response to flu vaccine, increasing white blood cell counts (especially in people with HIV infection or cancer), preventing colds, protecting the body against toxic metals such as lead and mercury, and slowing the aging process.
Chlorella is also used to increase “good” bacteria in the intestine in order to improve digestion; and to help treat ulcers, colitis, Crohn’s disease, and diverticulosis.
Some people also use chlorella for the prevention of stress-related ulcers; treatment of constipation, bad breath, and hypertension; as an antioxidant; to reduce cholesterol; to increase energy; to detoxify the body; and as a source of magnesium to promote mental health, relieve premenstrual syndrome (PMS), and reduce asthma attacks. It is also used for fibromyalgia.
Chlorella is applied to the skin for treating skin ulcers, rashes caused by radiation treatment, and a sexually transmitted disease called trichomoniasis.
How does it work?
Chlorella is a good source of protein, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, chlorophyll, vitamins, and minerals. The cell wall of chlorella must be broken down before people can digest it.
All I know is that since I have been taking this stuff ( powder form ) I have felt sooooo much better. Also take at LEAST 10000 mg calcium with at least 3-4000 mg vitamin D. The D helps the body absorb the calcium and that is what has helped my osteoporosis 🙂
Hey, just one more round. You can do it !!! Like I’ve always said Rhonda, Good thing my Spirit is good cuz my body SUCKS ! haahaha. I remember the listness feeling and the , what I called sometimes, void of feeling. Just get it over with for the love of God !!! Do you get that metalic feeling? I don’t know how else to express it, it felt like my entire insides were a tin can. weird and gross at the same time.
no never got that but myles has it also with his meds. thats why he has lost 30 lbs. ill look into the chlorella, add one more natural to the body, like i dont take enough. i have divertic. so that will help that. ive been good and have not had to be on blood thinners this time, just an 81mg aspirin for the factor 5.
Tomorrow will be #18 of rounds of Chemotheapy I thought it was next week, but realized its tomorrow which is good because I didn’t have to think about it. I hte the thought of going, feeling life crap for the next week, getting weak and dizzy, throwing up,mouth and nose sores, bla bla bla… but it will be my last, I don’t think I could do more if I had to and I wont have to… The future is what it is and I just pray that God wants me to stick around for awhile to fight (by the side) of other chemotherapy patients. I just want to help them with covers and other things that I know I needed. PET scan will be soon then its on with living.
well I guess it’s pretty much me speaking to myself here, but thats ok. Today was good, few side effects, more to come but knowing this poison wont enter my body ever again is a happy thought. now its just livin”
Hi babe! I hear you and I love you. Life is weird when healing in any way. I feel like I am healing every day from my stupid abusive relationship. I laid in bed wth my new dog last night and did not believe i deserved him after bruce took my other 2 dogs. I get scared everytime i move forward in life. but theres really no where else to go right? so i take shep outside and throw the ball. so simple but very hard to love again. afraid of it all being taken away. so i’ll take it one day at a time and move slowley, right?
PET scan today, Dr Garcia whom I adore!!!! called me this evening, I AM CANCER FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I adore Dr. garcia now too. is he married?
Just kidding. I love you and am so damn happy! for all of us! we need you girl.
I think about life every day, I am so thankful for all the wonderful people in my life whom I adore. I say my prayers for all who have cancer and hope they are as lucky as I am right now. we dont know what the future holds for us, but one thing I do know is that covers for chemo is showing up everywhere I can get supplies from. I dont want one cancer or infusion patient without warmth. I want them to know I care and Im fighting with them all.supplies are short, but I know know to be fully stocked in summer time.
TO ALL FIGHTERS AND HERO SURVIVORS : my love and respect for what you are going through is my mission to ease your symptoms just a little bit. hang in there and fight like a girly girl. because we rock sista” and to all thechildren living with your illness, I give you a hug and a high five. we are the special people of the world because we are fighters.