Diagnosed with cancer

When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, I did not realize all the changes that were to happen to me in just a short time.
In less than a week after I was diagnosed, a port was surgically placed, and chemo was started. Then soon there were to be side effects. Side effects happen as a result of chemo attacking fast growing cancer cells. Other fast growing cells in my body that were also attacked were in my blood, mouth, nose, intestinal tract, and hair.
I was given medication to help with nausea and vomiting, prer to taking chemo, which helped me greatly. The hair loss started within a week of my first chemo treatment. I remember my grandchildren and myself playing in the living room, something I could still do at that time, when my granddaughter pointed down to her toes and there wrapped up in her toes was some of my hair. Needless to say it was time to go to the beauty shop to have my hair shaved. Luckily for me my hair ...