Hi @heartofgold57, I love your username. This must be so hard for you to be so far from your big sister. It's obvious that she means a lot to you.

It is not unusual to have chemo for several months. Chemotherapy is given over a period of time, like the case with your sister. Different drugs may be given over a period of days or on different days. The week "off" is to give the good cells time to recover. You see, chemotherapy goes throughout the body (systemic), killing cancer cells that may have spread. It also kills or damages the fast-producing cells in our body, like blood cells. Luckily these cells replenish after chemotherapy. But they make take some time to replenish, so during that time she may be fatigued (low red blood cells) or more prone to infection (low white blood cells).

I'm tagging fellow members like @alie @formayor @pgf @dougmcd @waflanders to share their experiences with chemotherapy for gallbladder cancer.

HeartofGold, did she start chemo yet or does she start this week? How is she doing?

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