@shaker1956 Chemo is hard. Have done it twice--six treatments in 2001 for estrogen-positive breast cancer and in 2015, six with Adriamycin and then 12 taxol for triple-neg breast cancer. You will feel like crap, but the alternative .... If you have been given ondansetron and prochlorperazine for the nausea on treatment days and for a few days afterwards, I was told to overlap them (after a baaaad reaction to the first Adriamycin chemo)--the first one was to be taken every 8 hours and the second, every 6 hours, but don't wait until the end of the 8 hours to take the 2nd drug--take it 6 hours into the 1st drug, then take the 8-hr drug about 4 hours into the 2nd one and so on. Made all the difference. Also--lived on Stoned Wheat Thin Crackers for those five months in 2015; could eat those when nothing else could be faced.

There's every hope! A co-worker was diagnosed with lymphoma about 12 years ago; I don't know the stage, but she was out for a year and at one point, they did a bone marrow replacement and she had to be isolated for three months until her immune system came back. She's doing well and enjoying retirement. Pulling for you.

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