Robyn_W
12 years agoMember
Egg and lettuce!
Well, you ladies that have done chemo before me, were right again!
It is not as bad as you imagine and taking one day at a time is the way to go.
My side effects so far have been minimal, so I consi...
Hi Robyn
I went crazy for tomatoes, so much so that we now grow our own (again) after a break of several years. I could not stand chocolate, coffee or other normal delights but the savouryness of tomatoes did the trick for me. (When I was preganant the first time it was fish cakes and the second time it was beetroot, so I am a little savoury lover! - who eats too much chocolate haha).
I think that as long as you eat nutritious foods as much as you can, it is best while undergoing chemo. As the treatments accumulate in your body you may find it gets a bit harder, but I hope not. Things have come a long way since my own chemo times, July 2004 onwards for 8 months.
There is nothing as nice as home grown tomatoes and strawberries! Take special care, Mandy