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Newby24
7 years agoMember
New and so confused
I am Grade 2, sentinel lymph node free, deciding if the 4 or 5% difference of having Chemo or going straight into radiation and onto tablets and with the added severe family history of kidney and hear...
AllyJay
7 years agoMember
Hi there again @Newby24...regarding the "drink plenty of water to flush the chemo from your system faster" didn't make sense to me anyway. My thought was that the longer it stayed in my body, in large amounts, the more opportunity it had to kill off the cancer. To me, it was the same as putting hair colour on your hair, then rinsing it off after five minutes, before it had had a chance to penetrate throughout the hair follicles, in strength. That was what I told myself anyway, and it made me feel a little less guilty about my fluidless hybernation.