[free2023]

This is the worst phase, the waiting. Paradoxically once you start chemo, it's better. You're moving forward, and through. Just walking through the calendar to the end date.

Started a year ago. 5 months of chemo. Clear scan at 6-month checkup. :)

Chemo was my full-time job for awhile. It consumes a lot of energy. There wasn't much room for anything else. I could go thru the motions of other tasks, that's about it. And that's OK. Big picture, we're saving our lives, so that we can get to the other tasks later.

Brain function was fine all through chemo, and afterward. Not a cognition problem, thankfully. More an energy problem. I could think fine. Just couldn't act on it. Again that was OK.

It's so important to give ourselves some grace ... chemo's not a side project. Accepting that, makes everything else so much easier.

Very best of luck to you, and take ALL the anti-nausea drugs. They really work.