Thankfully my onc took me seriously and told me straight up that these drugs can be cardio toxic. When we start chemo with everything functioning perfectly and then parts of our body go haywire we know the cause.
My mother asked me this week - now that I am almost thru this chemo - if I knew in December what I know now, how it would be and what the effects are, would I do it again? My answer is that I had no choice, my stage and grade are so poor, but I’m glad I didn’t know because it would have made it so hard to sit there on that first day and watch that syringe of red stuff get pushed into my port. Nasty, nasty stuff.