Debbie Rowe Quotes

When you are doing chemo, you have a load of time.

After two rounds of chemo, I've started to notice, slowly, but surely, my hair has started to appear more regularly in my shower drain, sink drain, pillowcase and comb.

Did I still feel like I'd been run over by a Mack Truck? Absolutely. It's chemo, after all.

Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.

Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.

The thing with cancer is that it's usually the chemo rather than the disease itself that makes the patient feel so ill, particularly at the start.

You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that.

Chemotherapy is an opponent in itself - simultaneously curing you and hurting you.

Everything on my body turned real dark. My toes, under my feet, inside my mouth, under my tongue - I just turned really dark. I'm still here, but it's gonna take a while to get back to normal. Chemo kills all the good cells along with the bad.

Chemo is properly punishing, and it's hard to do things at the usual level.

Going through chemo is a monster. You literally feel like you're dying every day.

I remember seeing my father shaving my mother's head in the bathroom after her chemo treatments; It was so traumatizing.

Chemo is awful!

Two days after the chemo I felt terrible, like I had a permanent migraine and had been shot in every limb. I was knackered, starving. The doctor explained that was because I had essentially been poisoned.

If I was at the club you know I balled(bald), CHEMO.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you.

Chemotherapy isn't good for you. So when you feel bad, as I am feeling now, you think, 'Well that is a good thing because it's supposed to be poison. If it's making the tumor feel this queasy, then I'm OK with it.'

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

The interesting thing about the miracle berry in chemo patients is that it actually straightens out their taste buds, whereas for you and I, it blocks our bitter and sour receptors. For them, it straightens them out to taste food as it normally tastes.

I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

What I quickly learned after my diagnosis is that the world of a cancer patient has many parts and a good deal of uncertainty.

For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.