how to describe to non-chemo people why/how post chemo feels so bad

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  • aysemari
    aysemari Member Posts: 1,596 Member
    #22
    This is a great question
    and I have been pondering about it for some time now...

    I describe it like this, it is like going to war but you can't bring your guns.
    So you have to be strong mentally and be prepared.

    And when you come out, your body is so battered, as you know it would be
    but you still went. Now you are trying to resume your life but you are haunted
    by your experience and your soul estranged from the body it once knew so well.
    There's an ongoing monologue between the two, till they become one again.

    I think this is as close as I will get to explaining it.

    Love,
    Ayse
  • BlownAway60
    BlownAway60 Member Posts: 851
    #23
    aysemari said:

    This is a great question
    and I have been pondering about it for some time now...

    I describe it like this, it is like going to war but you can't bring your guns.
    So you have to be strong mentally and be prepared.

    And when you come out, your body is so battered, as you know it would be
    but you still went. Now you are trying to resume your life but you are haunted
    by your experience and your soul estranged from the body it once knew so well.
    There's an ongoing monologue between the two, till they become one again.

    I think this is as close as I will get to explaining it.

    Love,
    Ayse

    Chemo for me was like riding
    Chemo for me was like riding a roller coaster backwards. You don't know where you are going and what shape you are going to be in when you get there. You are scared as hell and if you could be any place else in the world you would go there in a minute.


    Hugs

    Donna

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