Cancer sucks. Cancer treatment sucks. But how can we make light of the situation?
My personal cancer history involves 4 surgeries, 1 dose of immunotherapy because of hypophysitis, and 6 weeks of radiation treatment. I've been in a holding pattern since last summer because nothing is there, but nothing is not there either. So we wait and watch to make sure that little bit of nothing that keeps popping up on the scan continues to be nothing.
But on to my point. What side effects have you had that are not that bad…or even kind of ok.
For example, when I was on radiation treatment on my parotid area, I loss my sense of taste. It was crappy. Everything tasted crappy. Food was reduced to just texture, and who knew that the texture of mashed potatoes was revolting. Because of this I didn't want to eat and so I lost weight. I lost the weight that I had gained while on high dose steroids from my hypophysitis. WIN! My sense of taste did eventually come back, but not the weight. 😀
Speaking of hypophysitis, my hormones got a little screwy. I am stuck on thyroid replacement and cortisol replacement probably for life. On the up note, I haven't noticed much in the way of armpit hair and my skin is WAY less oily, so much less that I don't feel the need to shower as much as I use to. DOUBLE WIN!!
So that's my list. What kind of side effects do you not mind?
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