The first week after Cancer enters your life can feel like being dropped into a new city at night, with no map and too many street signs. One moment you’re trying to absorb a single word, and the next you’re asked to make decisions that sound like they belong to someone else’s life. This guide…
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Steroid Side Effects During Cancer Care: Mood, Sleep, and Blood Sugar
Steroids are common during cancer treatment, and they often help fast. You might get dexamethasone, prednisone, or methylprednisolone to prevent nausea, reduce swelling, boost appetite, or calm inflammation. For some people, they also make radiation or chemo easier to tolerate. The tricky part is that steroid side effects can show up quickly, sometimes within days….
Read moreScansxiety Before an MRI scan or CT scan: A Grounding Plan That Helps You Breathe Again
The imaging scans are booked, the calendar is marked, and suddenly your mind acts like it’s carrying a loudspeaker. Every “what if” echoes. If you’re living with scanxiety, you’re not being dramatic, you’re being human. Cancer treatment teaches your body to pay attention. So when these medical tests come up, your nervous system may respond…
Read moreThe Job No One Offered to Hire You to Do
The Job No One Offered to Hire You to Do When I got my treatment plan from my oncologist, I understood every line. After 34 years as a surgeon, that part felt familiar. What I didn’t understand, what no one warned me about, was the second job that arrived with the diagnosis. There was no…
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Questions as My Path When cancer first entered my world, it arrived as a single word. That word felt cruel. It broke into my body’s safety like a thief at night. Overnight, I became someone I didn’t recognize. I felt small, weak, and scared. In those first days, I sank into a quiet kind of…
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