Post Chemo Update March 23 2009

Chemo was not so bad. The anticipation of it is horrible, but doing it, once one is going through the motions, is not nearly as bad as the anticipation of doing it. It helped a lot that I sat next to someone who was new at chemo and who himself was nervous. I was able to offer him support and guidance and that was wonderful. He was an interesting person and I hope to meet him again. I meet very interesting people at chemo. Certainly they completely understand what I am going through in a way others do not. Some of them have been doing this regularly for years and have an immense amount of experience, which they offer to me when I ask for it. Not a whole lot of them have the type of cancer I have (in fact I have never met anyone with the specific type of cancer I have, at chemo at least), but as they all go through chemotherapy they know the process and pass on how to deal. It was good for me to be able to do that for someone else and it kept me out of myself and occupied during the time I was there.