BOSTON -- At times, John Farrell said, there were seven different medicines coursing through his veins. Days when he was in a hospital bed for seven to 10 hours connected to IV tubes -- what would normally be six months of chemotherapy crammed into eight weeks because of the aggressive nature of the malignant cells that had invaded his body.
Days, Farrell admitted, when the treatment “beat me up a little bit."
And, especially at the beginning, there were the questions -- especially since there had been no symptoms, no warning signs.
“Maybe there was some frustration," he said.