@gingerw So true.

On treatment days I’d have a big chicken, salad and mayo roll near the treatment centre knowing I wouldn’t be able to keep food down afterwards until the next day. I learned the hard way that I couldn’t eat in the chair. I’d be horribly nauseous and vomit it up the next morning and was then turned off what I’d eaten and vomitted up for some months after treatment stopped. I could watch others eat in the chair so just enjoyed second hand, clutching my water bottle!

I’d have a lot of different things on hand at home like salmon, tuna, sardines, chicken, crackers, hummus, pate, hard boiled eggs, almonds, pistachios, crystallised ginger, broccoli, cauliflower, peas, corn kernels, yoghurt, jello, fruit icy poles, steel cut oats porridge etc.

Some foods I couldn’t go near because of the smell, like red meat.

i ate about 6-8 very small meals a day and didn’t stress if I could only eat soft fruit on some days. Loved bananas and grapes on bad days. Whatever I felt like really, and could keep down, especially the 2 days after being in the chair and then wearing the take home 46 hour pump. I’d have a huge bowl of laksa, noodles and shrimp as soon as the pump came off!!

I did lose a lot of weight but needed to as I’d put on a lot of weight when my cancer was growing and spreading. It always made me smile when people I hadn’t shared my diagnosis with admired my weight loss and told me how well I looked. Kind of them, but funny knowing why I was looking so svelte!

It’s trial and error and my oncologist was happy with my bloods and always told me to keep on doing whatever I was doing!

I would just add HYDRATE, HYDRATE, HYDRATE however you can - whether it’s with lots of soothing icy poles when treatment causes painful sores in your mouth