One of the side effects of the combination of drugs I get in chemotherapy is that it makes my skin do unpleasant things - my face and neck turn into teenaged nightmare skin, my chest and back likewise. I have a friend at work who had (I say "had" because he is now in remission) a rare form of cancer - he has only one eye - he lost the other from his cancer. When a man with only one eye notices that your skin is in rough shape, you know it must be noticeable. He gave me a friendly jest about it, as only someone else in the same boat could be allowed to do and gave me a hug.Those are my fingers in the picture. The chemo makes the skin on my fingertips and heels split open like overripe fruit, so sometimes simple tasks 
like picking up small objects, fastening buttons, typing, or walking provide a constant reminder that chemotherapy is not fun. Fortunately, it's not like this all the time - I get breaks of a few days here and there in the weekly and biweekly treatment cycles. That's when I get to be more like my "bc" (before cancer) self and sneak in a little gardening or household repair work and make my fingers look like this again - the good old fashioned way. Today was one of those days - I've been enjoying sweet cherry tomatoes in the garden and planting more perennials in the yard - a few treats for now in the tomatoes and a few treats to come with new plants in the ground. It's pretty good motivation to put up with the treatment.
like picking up small objects, fastening buttons, typing, or walking provide a constant reminder that chemotherapy is not fun. Fortunately, it's not like this all the time - I get breaks of a few days here and there in the weekly and biweekly treatment cycles. That's when I get to be more like my "bc" (before cancer) self and sneak in a little gardening or household repair work and make my fingers look like this again - the good old fashioned way. Today was one of those days - I've been enjoying sweet cherry tomatoes in the garden and planting more perennials in the yard - a few treats for now in the tomatoes and a few treats to come with new plants in the ground. It's pretty good motivation to put up with the treatment.
These are some of last year's crop - planted when I was first diagnosed.
