While this article from the New York Times, written by Julia Baird, is about getting a diagnosis of ovarian cancer rather than breast cancer, the experience she vividly describes is one that will be familiar to many women who have been diagnosed with any form of cancer. It is a generous sharing of the process she went through, and the impact it made and continues to make.
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Hand and Foot Syndrome #2
To help manage Hand and Foot syndrome I wear white cotton gloves available from chemists all the time and socks at night in bed after applying the creams. For more suggestions, click here