I'll second (or third or forth) what Dinah said, without my dogs, I would have never gotten through this. (Not to take away from my loving, caregiver, wife of course!)

I also used music, prayer, the spa (i.e. hydrotherapy -post treatment), meditation techniques, visualization and every other thing I could find to get through this.

I really like what Dee said about "...listening and singing, it pretty much takes care of my thinking" That was great! (In AA we call it stinkin' thinkin').

This is a very interesting thread indeed. Some great coping tools here...