Radiation Treatments

It was early October of 2002, when approximately eleven days after my radiation treatments were completed and I stopped taking capecitabine pills, that my body began to rebel. Small little red bumps began to appear on my arms, my lower legs, and my bottom. At first they were small, almost like the little, unpoppable zits one gets in her teenage years, but they quickly grew. In the course of a day they multiplied, getting larger; tender, oozy centers were surrounded by 2 inch

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