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Cancer is traumatic on the body. The treatments we have to treat cancer are incredibly traumatic. The idea with cancer treatments for modern medicine (at the time of writing this article) is effectively “fight poison, with poison”. There is always the risk of long term side effects from the cancer treatments (both physical and mental). For myself, I got a dose of both. I got permanent nerve damage from chemotherapy. I also have PTSD from the treatments.
Whenever I would get chemotherapy, I would go to a hospital in a town that’s about forty-five minutes away from where I live. I would get there early in the morning. They’d give me a lot of medication to help minimize the risk of me vomiting during the actual treatment session. Then, once the medication was in my system, they would start giving me the chemotherapy treatment. There are many different types of chemotherapy. My concoction of chemotherapy was known as “ABVG” to treat my Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (a type of blood cancer).
I would normally leave the hospital around noon to mid-afternoon (depending on how my body reacted to the treatment as well as how long it took the hospital to give me everything involved in the chemotherapy session). The nursing staff in the infusion center of the hospital (where I got my chemotherapy) were fantastic. They were very kind and very informative. They did their best to make the most of the session…
