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When I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, I did not realize all the changes that were to happen to me in just a short time. In less than a week after I was diagnosed, a port was surgically placed, and chemo was started. Then soon there were to be side effects. Side effects happen as a result of chemo attacking fast growing cancer cells. Other fast growing cells in my body that were also attacked were in my blood, mouth, nose, intestinal tract, and hair. I was given medication to help with nausea and vomiting, prer to taking chemo, which helped me greatly. The hair loss started within a week of my first chemo treatment. I remember my grandchildren and myself playing in the living room, something I could still do at that time, when my granddaughter pointed down to her toes and there wrapped up in her toes was some of my hair.
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