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23. My first experience with chemo was terrifying

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 10:34 PM

Thursday

This is the second day I was out of the hospital and I was hitting the ground running! Nothing was going to stop me! I wanted to live!

I had an anaphylactic reaction to my chemo (twice in the same day to to different ones!) but came back the next day to try different flavors and keep on fighting.

I earned much respect from my infusion staff that day.

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