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I'm sorry, but your 'fishy' made me REALLY mad. She has cancer, but she is bullshitting because she is bald, but can't be from chemo because the article says so?
Sorry just seen your above post that I quoted. My Fishy is to the whole story, not that she has cancer just the "Facts" given. Shepardsdog cleared up what part it was that stunk. Artical does make it sound like the June treatment is the first treatment. Thus my wondering why she was bald and if other forms of treatment would have caused it.
Now with that in mind, how long is the normal span between treatments? In the past it was something like 2-3 weeks between treatments. Past being the 80's so maybe my memories of my Grandmothers treatment are wrong. If the period between treatments are say 6 weeks or so then yeah I can see starting her CM the morning of a treatment. Like I said perviously half day opening deal. That afternoon she goes off for Chemo and a couple weeks later back in court. At least thats how I would see this going.
Let's just stick to that was a very poorly written article
My friend with Lymphoma underwent aggressive chemo every 3 weeks (and like I said before, then suffered 4 days at least with a chemo brain (she explained it as a severe flu-head (not a cold...), foggy, feeling drunk, just missing time, not remembering, saying weird stuff that doesn't make sense, as well as vomiting, not eating, not drinking) and got worse with every round. She had 8.
As maintenance, she undergoes a round of less aggressive (and less side effects) chemo every 3 months.
However... my next door neighbour had breast cancer last year, got surgery which removed her breast tissue, and 8 rounds of chemo (less aggressive, I assume) and was hardly sick at all. Every 3 weeks for her as well. She also underwent 5 weeks of radiation therapy every day.
Both went bald.
What I got from the story is that the CM starts the morning of chemo, and will last the rest of week, hence my comment wondering if she would be well enough...