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What critical adverse effects can chemotherapy and radiation therapy have?
Achambers62
My husband had a stem cell transplant in October 2011. For months after he was unable to eat properly, constant vomiting and diarrhea and lost an average of 10 lbs per week. He started at 240 lbs and now it is April and his weight is 160 lbs. He is now in a wheel chair and the nurses have to use a lift to move him from the bed to the wheel chair and vice verse. He has severe cognitive disorder. He was able to use a walker at first but he is gradually becoming weaker as each week passes. He has been in rehab but now he is so weak that they have almost given up on any rehab. The cancer is in remission but what the chemo has done continues to be devastating. He has not been able to use his legs since the 1st part of Febuary 2012. He has trouble naming our children. He is 63 years old, We have private insurance and are not old enough to quailfy for medicare or medicade.
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