#hangnailsforever

Note to self

You know those little hangnails and bits of skin that come loose around your nail beds? Do you just pick them off without thinking? Don’t do that. Especially a few days before chemo.

When all the literature mentions that the immune system is obliterated by chemo drugs, this is true. What is just a harmless bit of skin picked off without thinking has become a nuisance infection. I’ve had to resort to antibiotic cream on that little bit of skin, hoping it won’t turn into something more serious.