Chemotherapy Questions
This past week, readers have made comments and asked questions about chemotherapy. The comments included how difficult it was to take. Boy, can I relate to that! Another reader mentioned that her husband can never take chemotherapy again due to the complications that it caused. Yes, chemo can cause several different complications, many of which I endured, although none of mine were permanent.
Finally, another reader mentioned that her oncologist is recommending chemotherapy and she wonders if a consultation with a radiation oncologist would be appropriate before signing on to months of treatment. Like Mort, I would personally never agree to additional chemotherapy prior to finding out I were a candidate for RIT.
As this year draws to a close, I can't help but give RIT credit for giving me another year which at one time I didn't think I'd ever have. It's been a wonderful year from beginning to end. Talking with patients about RIT has taken me from one end of the country to the other, and Alex and I have thoroughly enjoyed those trips. Mostly, though, we've been here at home, working hard to overcome the effects of Michigan's economic woes on our homebuilding business. Like anyone in business, we worry, but our concerns are more than offset by the sheer joy of being alive and by the gratitude we feel for the second chance we were given to continue our life together. RIT gave us that.
Betsy