When you were in chemotherapy how was your attitude?

I had small cell, slow growth, non-felicular Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Stage 4. I also suffer from a bunch of mental problems including Post Traumatic Stress and Bipolar disorders. I decided that I had too many problems to worry about the cancer. I would do all the tests, could not believe the amount of tests. I took all the Chemo for two and a half years. Every time they hooked me up to that drip machine my wife would bring me an ice cream sandwich. I did not have time for cancer, so I was not going to throw up. The ice cream was tremendous. After all was said an done, I have been in remission for 7 1/2 years now. I did not have time for cancer then and I don't have time for it now. I get checked twice a year. I have a full physical every year. The only thing all my doctors keep telling me is loose some weight. I am 60 and almost a third of my life has passed me by.

congrats on the long remission!!! When I was diagnosed with NH lymphoma, my attitude was simple....this disease was not going to run or ruin my life, it was just going to have to find a way to fit into it.....I was determined to live a normal life. The first time I went thru treatments, I was fine......lost most of my hair, but not really sick and just a little tired, so I worked full time and did everything I normally did with my kids (I lost my husband 2 years before I was diagnosed with the cancer...my kids were 9-10 at the time)....when it returned a year later, my attitude was the same.....this time I did a stem cell transplant, and the chemo and injections were brutal on me, but I wouldn't let it get to me, no matter how sick I got.....I have a wacky sense of humor, and that was what got me thru it........6 months after finishing the transplant, I found out the cancer was back again~~~ I started another type of chemo treatments this past June and just had my last dose (for the moment) the day before thanksgiving. This time, the chemo has been much easier, with the exception of it keeping my counts so low that I was really tired all the time.....but I continued to work, full time and do everything with my kids.....I'm like you....I don't have time to waste on this stupid disease.....I do the treatments and move on......3 times in three years has been alot, but I will not stop fighting this, no matter what.....

Congrats on beating Lymphoma!!! I had diffuse large B-cell NHL stage 2, and so far, I'm still in the game. It's been 3 years. I didn't mind chemo, because I knew I had to do it in order to live. It was like "this sucks, but it must be done". I didn't mind having no hair, because that meant the medicine was working. Best wishes.

man chemo suxs bec it made me feel more sicker and i am, still figthing for my life

i made up my mind that i wasn't going to let cancer get me down. I've had chemo, radical mast. radiation therapy and now on hormone therapy. i am not in remission nor did they get all the cancer. but life is too short to let cancer get you down. i feel as if i could die from something else before cancer gets me. some of the treatments were a little rough but its nothing that anyone cant handle, they just have to make up their minds that they will fight and never give up. I'm so glad you have been in remission for as long as you have. i too have gained weight, but we are still here aren't we.