[CoolBreeze]

I had that track in my mind too but it goes away. It's new to you.

L-glutamine you can buy in any health food store, or a Vitamin Shoppe or something like that. It's a powder that you dissolve into cold water. I did it three times a day: before chemo, day of chemo, day after chemo. I forget how much but it's on the container. I had neuropathy which went away. UCLA did studies on it so there is some soft science behind it. Always talk to your onc before taking anything of course.

You can take metamucil - works great. I waited for three days until I took it; I preferred to control it with diet. But, sometimes you may need a little extra help. I ate a very high fiber diet - bran cereal in the morning with a pear, lunch was lentil soup (or any progresso high fiber soup). Dinner example would be meat, brown rice, artichoke or some high fiber veggie. That mostly worked but still once in a while I'd get stopped up. I'd buy high fiber drinks at Whole Foods and if that didn't work, on day three I'd take metamucil. Worked every time.

Clariton is for before the neupogen/neulasta shots you'll get to bring your white count up. Didn't work for me but hopefully it will for you.

As for the wig, I now work in a high school but worked in a middle school at the time of my "baldness." The kids were all kind and nobody freaked out. I tried a wig but they are a different thing when bald than when you have hair. I know some women manage to wear a wig all though - two hours was all I could stand. Kids of all ages are more accepting than you know.

Anyway, you'll do fine. There are lots of treatments for mets now but you do have to find a progressive onc and be near a major cancer center. Hardly any doctor can understand why they let me do a resection for liver mets. The belief has always been that cancer is everywhere anyway so treating one section is useless. But, they are finding that isn't always the case.