loss of appetite was in one of the
sentence that's still prevalent problem
eating that that was the problem
some of the issues in trouble I had with
eating because of the chemotherapy the
breakdown was happening and in my body
sometimes be hard to chew it hard to
swallow the hell appetite certain smells
would make you feel nauseous
nothing tasted right like no matter what
i ate or what somebody else prepared for
me or what
take out nothing tastes that the way I
used to know the food is supposed to
taste so that was difficult to me
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how you deal with that I nausea is is
very individual and I think that
whatever you need to do to get through
the treatments if you've committed
yourself to believing that these are the
treatments that you need to have then
you need to trust the doctors and
pharmacists that what they're going to
give you is going to help you get
through that treatment
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when you feel like it you don't need
when you don't want to then come I just
we just have to cope with it for three
months and I was really sick and I
almost wanted to start doing the
chemotherapy because I was so sick so
then they gave me a steroid that was it
worked really well that I gained 35
pounds from it but they said not to
worry about that
so that's what I did to deal with the
nausea and it work
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I drank a lot of food and I eat a lot of
what we call low acidic type of food do
not irritate my system and I actually
help me get in quite a bit of nutrition
during my treatment and because it was
mostly liquid i was able to fit a lot
during the day and not have to sit and
have a wheel which was also a a bit of a
task during a doing treatment
with my mom-in-law you know we we were
comparing else my husband and
brother-in-law able to pick up the spine
ok what well what is your mom eating and
we would try really a variety of foods
that just to get them going and I
different texture you know the maybe a
smoothie this time or I you know a salad
you know if someone would come to me and
tell me you know i'm going through
cancer and I I really don't feel like
eating anything or it really don't have
an appetite to tell him you know you
know yourself and you know what you like
it just go out even if it's for ice
cream or something and it's not very
nutritious
however it's something that they like
and it maybe it just they know it will
feel good because maybe that's the only
enjoyable thing you can get through the
whole process
at the end of the day you can read every
pamphlet or less than that nutrition and
talk to you about what think we should
be eating shouldn't be eating but i
think it's about what feels right for
you a lot of it was a discovery there
are substitutes we live in a world where
there are so many substitutes our food
that you got to figure out what your
body can and can't deal with i think at
the end of the day and that's that's the
biggest thing
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