Dan, don't be scared by others' experience since our response to chemo can vary and I don't think all of us go through the same chemo side effect. Take myself as an example. I had chemo once a week for four consecutive weeks. I could drive back home after the treatment and still ate some soft food. There were mouth sores but with the pain medicince, they were tolerable.Nausea was a problem expected and so before the chemo, I was given an injection to prevent that and before the two meals, there were some anti-nausea drugs to take. I managed going through the whole treatment with only one time vomitting at the dinner table.I threw up the second time when I was in the hospital, a week after I had finished all the chemo.It was easy to think of vomitting when I smelt the cooking of food in the kitchen. So I would stay away from the kitchen when it was meal time. Diarrhea was not my problem at that time and in fact it was constipation that I experienced because of the pain medicince I took. But again the doctor prescribed some medicine to ease the problem. Most of the time it worked but when I couldn't eat fruit or veggies, the problem got more serious.So Dan, if you didn't feel any different for your first time, don't worry about it getting worse the second time. It may or may never happen. Who knows? We are all unique.

Karen