One more thing I'd suggest is if there is any way you can afford it, to hire a cleaning person to come and clean your home before, during and after treatment. You will be having chemo which lowers your resitance to infection and it helps to stay healthy to have a super-clean home--especially the kitchen and bathroom and you will NOT feel like keeping up with it yourself during treatment.

I actually had a couple of friends that came to clean my home a couple of times during the worst of my treatment but, to be honest, I couldn't really deal with that well psychologically (may be because when you grow up female you feel you are somehow a failure if a friend has to come to help you clean). Later we hired a cleaning person who makes good money for herself doing this professionally and she did a great job. I wish we had hired her earlier.

Nelie