What do YOU want to know about chemotherapy?
Chances are, if you've come to this site, you or someone you love is facing the possibility of chemotherapy. Or maybe you're in the midst of treatment and feeling overwhelmed, as though your life depends on solving a puzzle where the pieces don't always fit and the rules don't always apply.
Well, as isolated as you may feel, you're far from alone. Hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are undergoing chemotherapy at this very moment. They're being treated for cancer, for multiple sclerosis, and for a host of other conditions including organ transplant rejection .
I'm not a doctor, I'm not an expert on chemotherapy . One day after my first chemo treatment, I shaved my head and looked at myself in the bathroom mirror. "Ohmygod, I'm hot!" I thought, "And I'm bald! How strange is that?" From that moment on, my perception of chemotherapy changed . I realized it wasn't going to be as bad as I thought.
The chemo patients' stories on Chemotalk.com prove you can rule your disease or condition, and that's what this site is all about. You may lose your hair, you may even lose a little of your mind for awhile if you get "chemo brain." You may require a port into your stomach because you can't eat, or maybe you can eat, but you can't keep the food down and everything tastes like metal, anyway. The side effects can be wicked. But you can prepare yourself mentally, to make the ordeal a lot easier. You know -- or you'll soon find out -- that somewhere there's a calendar with a date circled, and on that date you'll turn a corner. In most cases, your treatment will be over and you'll go on with your life. And if you handle your fear, you'll look back on your chemo experience as the gift you never asked for, but in unexpected ways, it helped make your life better than before.
Getting comprehensive information about chemotherapy isn't easy, as I found out. And most of what you find relates to chemo-and-cancer, even though chemo is widely used for other reasons. Medical sources of information written in laymen's words do exist, but they're hard to track down. Chemotalk.com will try to provide the most comprehensive and accessible of those resources, on the net and elsewhere. There'll be a frequently-updated Q & A page about the chemo experience, on topics that doctors seldom have time to answer during patient visits.
If you're going through chemo, talk about prevention isn't relevant anymore. The important thing to you now, is keeping control of your life while you're being treated. And overcoming any side effects that may remain afterward. Kick that disease to the curb, is what I say. Fight back the fear and take the journey!
One more thing: Chemotalk.com isn't my chemotherapy site, it's yours. So tell me:
What do you want to know about chemo, that you forgot to ask the last time you saw your doctor?
How do you handle your experience with chemo?
The purpose of Chemotalk.com is to get you the information about chemotherapy that you're looking for. That's a big undertaking, but I know how important this is to you. I'm really, REALLY on the same page.
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