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I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.

Everything on my body turned real dark. My toes, under my feet, inside my mouth, under my tongue - I just turned really dark. I'm still here, but it's gonna take a while to get back to normal. Chemo kills all the good cells along with the bad.

I did grieve a bit when I wasn't having the chemo anymore. I was used to sitting in the little chair and then the nurse would come and do it. It was like that was your job for that long and it was reassuring.

I was diagnosed with lupus, and I've been through chemotherapy.

I was in the hospital for about two weeks because I had some complications due to the transition to kidney from dialysis and getting off of that.

I had a prostatectomy in the fall and fortunately it was encapsulated and I didn't have to go through chemotherapy.

For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.

I was terrified of getting the chemo. It's not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.