Still Blooming — A Chemotherapy Companion Journal

After a chemo session, the details slip away fast. Which anti-nausea tablet was it? You meant to ask your oncologist about the tingling in your fingers, then you sat down and the question was gone. Treatment brings a lot to track, right when you have the least energy for it.

Still Blooming is a chemotherapy journal that carries some of that load. It keeps the practical side in one place (your care team, treatment plan, medicines, questions, and each cycle) so nothing lives only in your head. It also keeps you company, with gentle pages for the feelings that don't fit on a lab form.

It's made for real treatment days. There are twelve cycle logs, each with a session page, a week-after symptom grid you rate from 0 to 3, and a page for how that cycle honestly went. Bring the book to appointments, and "I felt bad last week" turns into specifics your care team can work with. Skip pages freely. A half-filled journal that lowered your stress has done its job.

It's clear about its place. It isn't medical advice, and it makes no promises about outcomes. It works alongside your oncology team, whose instructions always come first. Even the red-flags page is filled in with them, so you know when to call.

What's inside

• My Care Team — your oncologist, how to reach them between visits, where you're treated, and your support circle
• Coverage and assistance pages — HMO and PhilHealth notes, the hospital social worker, PCSO and DOH medicine programs, PWD and senior discounts
• Diagnosis, treatment plan, and medication pages — written in your own words, as your doctor explained it
• Questions, appointment logs, and test results — for the 3 a.m. questions and the CBC numbers
• 12 treatment cycle logs — session details, a daily symptom check for the week after, and what helped
• Symptom trackers — pain, nausea, food that stayed down, energy, and sleep
• Everyday Life pages — a treatment-day bag list, a help rota, rides to treatment, and work and money notes
• Mind & Heart and Milestones & Wins — free pages for hard days, a small wins log, and a cycle countdown
• For My Caregivers — how to help, plus a page for the caregiver's own words

It's for anyone starting or partway through chemotherapy, and for the family member doing the driving, the pill-sorting, and the note-taking. It's also a kind, practical gift from a friend who keeps saying "tell me what you need" and wants to help in a way that actually gets used. Tuck in an offer to take a shift on the ride list.

Some days you'll fill in three pages, and some days none. Either way, it'll be there in the bag.