[Sherryg683]

I'm another one that pretty much did as I wanted, even when my WBC's got low...and believe me..mine got pretty low at times. My oncologist told me from the beginning to eat what I wanted, keep up my exercise if I felt like it and go out and enjoy life when I felt good enough to. I didn't avoid crowds, ate salads and had sick kids in and out the house all the time. I never once came down with anything while on chemo. THEN...a year later when I'm suppose to be feeling like my old self again, I came up with shingles that ran in 3 nerve paths. I have terrible lingering pains from them that just don't seem to be getting any better. All the doctors have told me it was because my immune system is still weak from chemo, guess that makes sense but you wonder why it didn't occur when my immune system was really low while on chemo..sherryg683