Chemo and radiation survivor,but bone marrow transplant is what saved me with Acute Myloid Leukemia. Only vomited once or twice from chemo-they gave me plenty of nauseau meds. Request them - they make it more tolerable. My first chemo was for a month - in patient. I lost my hair twice-refused to shave my head-glad I didn't. Still had some. Having chemo in-patient made sense for me-I lived 1 1/2 hours away from hospital and following initial chemo had 2 more in-patient and last one right before transplant with staying in hotel for week paid by hospital. Some people have chemo out in the open with others - I always had a private room because it was easy for me to catch something. If cannabis is available, get on a medical cannabis program -great for nauseau even after chemo. Please pm me if you want to talk. You can survive chemo and radiation (I had one very strong dose).

Wow-I hope that's not as overwhelming as it sounds! Good luck! The American Cancer Society paid for my hotel room when I went to the cancer doctor last week. It was in a big city where you also have to pay the hotel for parking and they even paid for that!

Mine was about the same. 16 weeks of chemo, 4 weeks of radiation and 5 years on aromatase inhibitors. When they recently upped it to 10, I declined I am cancer free 8 years later. Just do it!

The radiation is a pain, having to go every day, but the treatments are only about 5 min so no biggie. I don't remember any significant side effects from it. As far as the chemo goes, every case is different, every reaction is different, so I don't know what to tell you to expect. But in my case, it wasn't as bad as I anticipated.

I hope you were able to find some social services thru the ACS source I told you about.