Bad side effects

After returning back to normal life, my body didn’t feel right and my nausea didn’t go away. It started getting worse until I also started loosing appetite and loosing weight. After 10 days my hair started falling out, except for my white ones. I suddenly was nearly bald…

These side effects were all pretty normal, just a bit annoying as I had prepared myself mentally. The bit I couldn’t understand why I felt so weak and why my weight kept falling. We contacted my doctor, who prescribed stomach relaxant and steroids to reduce the side effects.

They helped and I could join for breakfast again, even going out to a coffeeshop and have a first latte in 2 weeks. Ah it tasted so good. The accompanying orange juice was the killer of the fun as I felt my stomach complaining.

That breakfast was the last normal thing I ate from then on. My body went into lockdown. I mean multiple organs started to be affected by my body’s rejection of Yervoy, the new type of immunotherapy given to me on 22Oct.

The total rejection was a surprise of my doctor. I was the first. When looking in the reference book, I had now developed all possible side effects in the list, and was rapidly loosing all muscle strength till I couldn’t get up anymore in bed.