by Beth DeLong | Last updated Dec 3, 2023 | Cancer Journey
I was willing to use just about anything to help me get through chemo and radiation! So when my sister suggested I incorporate essential oils during cancer treatment to aid with side effects, I was all over it. Caveat: Essential oils during cancer treatment can...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Dec 3, 2023 | Cancer Journey
You will likely have nurses emphasizing to you the importance of hydration during cancer treatment, both chemo and radiation. But if you don’t, then please, allow me. (ahem) DRINK PLENTY OF WATER DURING CHEMO AND RADIATION!! I’m not a huge water...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Dec 3, 2023 | Cancer Journey
First of all, allow me to state the importance of drinking plenty of water during treatment! That said, let’s move on to #2. No, for real, #2. Because if you’re reading this article, you’re likely going through chemo or about to go through chemo...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Dec 3, 2023 | Cancer Journey
Most people don’t like a one-upper. We’ve all met them – someone who always, regardless of the topic, has to have the final say. Perhaps she had the worst illness, or he had attended the best college, or she had the worst boyfriend, or he had the absolute bestest...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Dec 3, 2023 | Cancer Journey
My radiation was put on hold for two days. Two days further behind schedule because my radiation marks had shifted and warped. Rather than a thin, straight line so my doctor could pinpoint my treatment down to the millimeter, I had a pudgy, drunken curve...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Dec 3, 2023 | Cancer Journey
Along the Jersey Shore lies the modest, charming town of Ocean Grove. Its small-town feel and Victorian architecture seem a direct contrast to the stereotypical notion of a Jersey beach town. And yet this town, with its humble beginnings as a Methodist campsite in...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Dec 3, 2023 | Cancer Journey, Crafty Eunice
Knitting is one of those activities that can easily shift from the general category of “hobby” to something deeper, a coping mechanism, without your ever becoming aware of the change. Somewhere it transitions from knitting for fun to knitting for healing. For...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Dec 3, 2023 | Cancer Journey
Tell any woman she’ll have to have chemotherapy and one of her first thoughts will be about chemo hair loss. We live in a society where a lot of feminine identity is based on our hair. Is it long enough? Straight enough? Curly enough? Too gray? Too wild? You don’t...
by Beth DeLong | Last updated Dec 3, 2023 | Cancer Journey
Can we just be honest for a minute? How many of you actually wore deodorant after your first couple weeks of radiation? Because for serious y’all, wearing deodorant on sore armpits is hard! When I first started radiation treatment I wore deodorant,...
