• BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Was your chemo treatment also combined with a surgery? I found after cancer surgery my brain was foggy, and chemo did not help. One thing I notice though was whatever it fogged up also halted any anxiety. Not that I’m an anxious person, but things like “aw crap I have a big bill coming in a week and not enough income” used to be on my mind, now its like Meh whatever

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      No surgery, I have incurable blood cancer (multiple myeloma). I spent a year not responding to several different flavours of chemo. After “getting my affairs in order” and saying goodbye, they decided to do a stem cell (“bone marrow”) transplant, then another. Two more years of chemo, and now I’m in “myeloma remission” — cancer levels are too low to detect, but it always comes back…