Homaro Cantu Quotes

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

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.

I'm not a big sweet guy, I have more of a savory palate.

When you're hungry, everything tastes good.

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

Chemo does its best to make you lose your femininity. You lose your hair. You lose your eyelashes. You lose your eyebrows.

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.

It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

Things taste less salty when they're cool.

I have people that have died from cancer and friends that are dealing with cancer.

When I was young, my dad had skin cancer, which was awful.

I've had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once. Some of them that aren't even in the alphabet, they're just numbers - clinical trials. But I bet if you added all those up, it would have to be like 60- or 70-something. I've had 23 bone marrow aspirations. Having one isn't fun and I've had 23. So that's been tough.

I was almost giving up because the chemo was so intense and aggressive that there were moments I had to find the inner strength within myself.

In Sept of 2013 I was diagnosed as having an aggressive form of stage 2 endometrial cancer. I underwent a rigorous treatment program that included a radical hysterectomy followed with chemo and radiation therapy.

Before he died, my dad had three primary cancers over 20 years, and for four of those years, he was having chemo every day. We got used to sitting as a family at the table and him not to be able to taste what we were tasting.

Chemo is awful!

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable.

This letter really touched my heart. Sabrina says when she lost all her hair during chemo, she wore the cap I gave her.

I had three sessions of chemotherapy so it was really tough, it was hard to go through it. But while I was going through my treatment, I was always motivated that I was going to come back and play for India. I think that's what kept me going and got me through.

With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood.

A study of over 10,000 patients shows clearly that chemo's supposedly strong track record with Hodgkin's disease (lymphoma) is actually a lie. Patients who underwent chemo were 14 times more likely to develop leukemia and 6 times more likely to develop cancers of the bones, joints, and soft tissues than those patients who did not undergo chemotherapy .

Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit.

I have been through a lot of medical trauma. I was diagnosed with breast cancer .