tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146185555985083132.post2342240893474164615..comments2023-04-27T09:23:38.785-04:00Comments on Where I Am In All of This...: Chemo-Brain!Robert Schollhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01541463336085628162noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146185555985083132.post-5158717460227839792008-05-27T21:37:00.000-04:002008-05-27T21:37:00.000-04:00Dear Bert, I love you and am thinking about you! T...Dear Bert, I love you and am thinking about you! Thank you for sharing, I am humbled, deeply humbled by what you are having to go through. My thoughts and prayers are with you.alliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04822206745915967028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146185555985083132.post-90446437062874996192008-05-26T15:13:00.000-04:002008-05-26T15:13:00.000-04:00respone to jb and to maria:Thank you for sharing f...respone to jb and to maria:<BR/><BR/>Thank you for sharing from your experience and for the encouragement. It helps. It really does.Robert Schollhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01541463336085628162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146185555985083132.post-27861907216336514912008-05-26T15:04:00.000-04:002008-05-26T15:04:00.000-04:00Dear Bert,I hear you on the whole chemo-brain thin...Dear Bert,<BR/><BR/>I hear you on the whole chemo-brain thing... I practically lost my ability to type for a whole week after each infusion. I would mis-type every three letters or so. And forget reading and being able to process what I was reading! Just about all I was up for was staring at the television - repeats were the best, because I didn't have to process any new information.<BR/><BR/>Daniela is, of course, right. As are you. This whole chemotherapy experience is so surreal and uncomfortable, and there is no way to feel like ourselves, because our selves are not usually loaded up with toxic chemicals. I could feel them coursing through my body, I could taste them in my mouth and in all my food, and I could smell them.<BR/><BR/>But, Daniela IS right. All we can do is go with it and ride the ride until it is over. We can't make it go any faster, and we certainly can't make it feel "normal". As my friends in AA say, one day at a time, one minute at a time if you have to. And believe me, some days during chemo, one minute at a time was all I could handle.<BR/><BR/>It will be over soon. And from where I sit, almost a month after my last infusion, there are several ways I feel more like my normal self again. Food tastes like it should, my appetite and ability to eat match again. I no longer smell or taste the chemicals. My hair is slowly starting to grow again. And I am finally starting to heal again from the surgery I had a month before chemo even started!<BR/><BR/>There is hope, just around the corner. Hang in there!<BR/><BR/>And, one more thing... you can be grateful that you won't be having these volcanic hot flashes! Count even your smallest blessings!<BR/><BR/>You are in my thoughts and prayers.<BR/><BR/>Maria BrownAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8146185555985083132.post-4233756435275541132008-05-24T09:49:00.000-04:002008-05-24T09:49:00.000-04:00Bert,What you are going through is amazing, and ju...Bert,<BR/><BR/>What you are going through is amazing, and just as amazing is the grace and bravery you have in writing about it. <BR/><BR/>I am happy to know that you made it through the radiation and that you will be recovering despite the chemo cocktail. When those pimples, boils and other nasty wounds become only memories what a series of "<I>uncommon</I>" stories you will have.<BR/><BR/>Hang in there and keep weeding the sacred garden that is your body.<BR/><BR/>JBJB aka JayBeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14431069014609964633noreply@blogger.com