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March 23, 2007
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I met with my oncologist about a month after the surgery. The treatment she set me up for included eight rounds of chemo along with 15 rounds of radiation.
I took my first round of chemo in late October. It lasted three grueling hours. I felt fine the first couple of days and then my energy began to wane; my appetite followed. By the next week, I was sleeping most of the time, barely eating and feeling too sick to get out of bed.
It was my hair that did the trick. My beautiful hair that finally forced me to face the reality of what I was fighting. I still remember that day. I was on the couch, watching TV when I sat up and noticed large tufts of hair on the pillow. I felt like someone had finally lifted the curtain on my emotions. I cried. I was depressed. I was on a roller coaster ride of emotional hell.
My best friend shaved my head that day, and I cried even more after I looked in the mirror. I couldn’t seem to climb out of the emotional hole I was in.
Well, to make a long story short, I ended up having five rounds of chemo and 15 rounds of radiation. The cancer was in remission…finally, so I tried to go back to my life.
But I was not the same person after this battle was over. Most definitely a life-changing situation such as this has a tendency to alter your view of your world, of people and situations, and what’s most important in your life.
02.08.08 - 
Juliette Randall 
Cameron Bethuram 
MO 
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