Colorectal cancer (colon & rectum)Remission
When on chemo, I had a lot of hard days. My kids were 3 and 6, and my husband was self employed and worked long hours, so I was alone most of the time. I would struggle to wake up, and on bad days, my sister in law would come round and give them breakfast and take them to school/nursery so I could sleep. Some days I would sleep until noon, wake up, try and have something to drink, couldn't eat, then go back to sleep again. I couldn't walk much, so would drive to collect them from school. The neuropathy was so bad in my hands that I couldn't make them food without gloves on. I could barely make it up stairs to go to the toilet, and would often have accidents as I couldn't either tell when I needed to pee, or had such bad diarrhoea from the chemo that it was a desperate situation. I would be too exhausted and brain fog so bad, that I forgot what I was saying most of the time. In the end, I stopped talking as much as I just couldn't. I also couldn't stomach any food towards the end of chemo, I lived off liquid nutrition drinks. When I could stomach food though, it tasted of nothing and that was miserable.
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