Guide - Getting Through the 1st Chemotherapy - From the Perspective of the Caregiver

I do not know how chemo actually is like because I never went through it (and hoped that I would never have to). So who am I to say what sitting through a chemo session is like? We are all heard of all the horror stories of how painful the chemo sessions can be and in one graphic example, the patient described it as 'fire' running through your body. This may be true but it is so not helping the patient. And as caregiver, especially this is the first time in close contact with cancer, it may also be an unnerving experience. There are a lot of articles on the side-effect on chemo but I have not seen any article that has a checklist for pre-chemo preparation and addressing the fear of that 'very first time'. From the perspective of the caregiver, I hope this check-list would help the caregiver.

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