Should I be helping you? Often, I lose my temper because I'm actually feeling guilty about my own unhelpfulness.
A patient's first question about chemotherapy is most often: "Will I lose my hair?" Scalp hair is extremely sensitive to general health issues such as nutrition, hormonal changes and emotional stress, but the most profound effect is chemotherapy.
Not knowing she would live to see her 83rd birthday as a child, I often asked myself "what if" I lost my mother.
I would often leave shaking, and one time I lost sensation in the roof of my mouth.
Just as often, I'd lose the thread and nod off completely, or begin composing angry e-mails.
That said, I often feel like I lose any semblance of family and social life for at least a couple of weeks, especially because my school responsibilities continue so I have to consign marking to evenings and weekends.
Sometimes I fall asleep before I reach one — that's not so mysterious — but more often I just get lost.
I lose perspective and often didn't see the point in working when you could lose a month's salary in an hour".
