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Before I detail out how I prevented side effects from radiation I have to make one thing clear: I am a skin care expert and snob. I held an esthetic license and spent twenty years working in medical aesthetics, so how could I not be? And in full disclosure, the majority of the products I used to prevent side effects are from a company called Avene, a company that I worked for nearly six years. I used to recommend these products to patients when I was in practice as an esthe

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The name of my business, RISE, is a reflection of a mantra I heard during a meditation session early in my diagnosis. Somewhere in the fuzzy days between the discovery of a malignant tumor in my rectum to my first rounds of CT and MRI imaging, I sat down with a meditation app to help keep my mind from running into a wild abyss. I don't remember many details from those days, but I do remember being struck by four simple words the narrator spoke during that one meditation sessi

My first day of radiation was August 24, 2022. That morning, I bravely got up, took a shower, did full hair and makeup and anxiously went to the bathroom to take my very first dose of 3, capecitabine pills. Ever since childhood, I have had an extreme fear of vomiting. I am afraid of feeling sick and throwing up. I am also terrified of other people being sick. The capecitabine pills made me so nervous as I knew that nausea and vomiting could be a side effect, I just didn’t kno