The agony of da feet

Chemo now officially over. Jeanette, our favorite nurse, came this afternoon and unhooked the infusion pump. 5-FU is gone at last. Now the feet, the feet. They are numb. Numb doesn’t sound like much until you realize that we use the nerves on the bottom of our feet to walk, stand, balance and to know where we are in space. Most of our spacial orientation comes from nerve messages from our feet. It can take a year or more for this to improve. The party line is that somewhere between 20 and 80 percent of the neuropathy is for keeps. The gift that chemo keeps on giving.