Sometimes it is hard for me to understand how hard the isolation of this disease is for my sister. My sister and I are polar opposites. I am very shy and quite and she is a very outgoing life of the party type person. She and her husband would have parties and BBQ by the pool almost every weekend. I'm happy curled up with a book in my recliner. After getting over the shock of her having AML (we had lost my dad 1 1/2 years ago to brain cancer so it really was a shock to find out we would be battling cancer again so quickly) and after her 4 week round of induction in isolation, we had cried together and joked that God messed up and gave the wrong sister this disease.

The isolation of this disease is effecting her more so than the disease and it's complications. It's hard for a quite person to understand how someone needs social interaction so much but she just does. I'm not sure how to combat this for her. It just doesn't seem possible due to the nature of the treatment. She's tried Skype and Face Time but they just aren't the same. I ordered her a blanket with pictures of all of her children, grandchildren, and family on it to be able to bring with her to the hospital but I am running out of ideas to help her deal with this issue. Any suggestions or comments on how guys have dealt with this?

She has had minimal complications compared to some in this group and she has so far only hit one speed bump, but she is so ready to have her life back. From reading all of the posts on here of others who have completed their treatment and are doing well, it did take some time once treatment was completed to get back to some semblance of normal. Some, it seems, have never made it completely back to normal.