Hello, @clodaghdowning !
Thank you so much for your share about such a taboo theme like cancer.
Nowadays society tends to show "us" only the good life, and the happy ever after.
I congratulate you for your courage to assume and to describe all the "steps" in the chemo process in your type of cancer.
Unfortunately, I knew someone very close related to me that didn't make it through the gastrectomy, after the 3 months of previous chemo protocol (Epirubicine, 5-FU and Cisplatin) for cito reduction. But just like you said, medicine, and Oncology has been evolving so much in these last years... And this case was 12 y ago.
Thank you, once again for your courage 😊
Thank you so much xrayman for your support and kind words. I really am grateful. Please accept my sincere condolences for your loss of a relative. It is so hard, isn't it? Any family/carers or even patients themselves have told me, if people only knew how awful cancer can be, they would protest until world governments invested in its cure like they did for Covid and more. I believe we do not conquer our demons until we face them. I suppose this little blog is my way of facing my demon- cancer. Again thank u.