“So cancer is not done when cancer is gone!” What does that really mean? It can mean many things as far as collateral damage to your life and body, both physically and emotionally. One prominent issue many people battle is “Chemo Brain”.

Imagine that you are sitting in a new cold oncologist office waiting for your diagnosis. Good news and bad news are about to be divulged. My hands are sweating, my eyes starting to tear up. My husband is holding my sweaty hands. My oncologist enters and tells me flat out, “you have Multiple Myeloma”. By the way, he spoke; the good news was that we caught it early. The bad news is that it is a rare type of incurable cancer, but there are new clinical trials coming forthright. It will be very manageable. Sure, until it isn’t!

Finding out that you have been diagnosed with cancer is a traumatic event. It is difficult to process and takes a while to get used to the fact that you are definitely not immortal. While trying to get used to all aspects of what having cancer really means, you are still around people that are just becoming aware of your newly born fate.