Russ,

Without knowing anything about your diagnosis or if you will get concurrent chemo or how you will get it and chemo COULD make a negative difference, I can say that each of us can respond differently. I always say that 10% of us have the worst time, 10% breeze through and the rest of us have a pretty rough time but for only about 7 weeks so in the grand scheme of things that's a mere speed bump in your life's journey. Mind you it's the only thing that has proven a reliable killer to your cancer.

In my experience and mind you I didn't find this site and have the benefits of it's wisdom until post Tx but I was a pretty sick and miserable puppy from about my 4th week of Tx until the 3rd week post Tx. It took all of 2 years post Tx for me to feel almost back to normal and today, 5 years later, it's a distant memory. I would estimate that I have 95% of my taste and saliva back, my thyroid is fried which requires a small daily pill and my hearing was damaged from my chemo but that's it. Oh I'm still alive and plan to be for a very long time.

Was it fun, NO NO and NO again. Would I do it again? YES YES and YES again.

You like so many before you will meet this challenge head on and walk out of that tunnel with a renewed sense of what's life all about.

Visit this site 24/7 as it will be the best part of your Tx and it will help you get through this in endless ways.