So after much lurking during my diagnosis, I've thrown together a list of the things I bought to prepare for my chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This was a mix of suggestions from this forum, medical suggestions from Drs and Nurses and recommendations from Amazon once it worked out why I was buying certain items. It kept me busy to review items and made me realise I needed more things than I thought! I found it handy to keep track of when certain things were useful up until (mostly so I could reassure myself it wasn't a waste of money!).
My personal purchases and reviews are on sheet 1 (I am 33F), with a blank template on sheet 2 if you want to start keeping track of your journey. Maybe it will be useful to someone starting who likes to be organised, who knows. I just know it helped me and hopefuly it can be a useful tool to someone My prescription items were recommended for me by medical professionals, they might recommend you something different.
Bloody love this. I am an avid planner - I need ALL the info and this is amazing - Thank you!
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