The infusion chair can feel like a small island, even with your health care team nearby. There’s a pole, a pump, warm blankets, and time that moves in its own strange way. You might be trying to be brave for your family, or for yourself, or just to get through one more hour, mindful of…
Read moreHow to Find Strength When Life Becomes Difficult (Especially During Cancer)
Life can change in one phone call. One day you’re making plans, paying bills, showing up for work, thinking about next month. Then something hits, and the map you were using no longer matches the ground under your feet. If you’ve been searching for How to find strenght when life becomes difficiult, it’s probably because…
Read moreTaste is part of the joy of eating. I
Taste is part of the joy of eating. It’s also one of the quiet ways we feel at home in our bodies. When chemotherapy takes that away, it can sound small next to nausea, fatigue, or hair loss. But it can hit hard, day after day, meal after meal. I didn’t expect how sad it…
Read moreTaste is part of the joy of eating. It’s also one of the quiet ways we feel at home in our bodies. When chemotherapy takes that away, it can sound small next to nausea, fatigue, or hair loss. But it can hit hard, day after day, meal after meal.
Taste is part of the joy of eating. It’s also one of the quiet ways we feel at home in our bodies. When chemotherapy takes that away, it can sound small next to nausea, fatigue, or hair loss. But it can hit hard, day after day, meal after meal. I didn’t expect how sad it…
Read moreImmunotherapy Colitis Stool Changes: What to Eat, Meds That Help, and When to Go to the ER
Cancer treatment asks a lot of the body, and immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors can feel like a brave bargain. While these powerful cancer treatments make your immune system awake and watchful, strong enough to push your cancer back, maybe even into remission, sometimes that same immune fire spreads to places it shouldn’t, including the…
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