Fun Facts About Peripheral Neuropathy

Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy is the wasting and inflammation of nerve tissues, often manifest in peripheral extremities (fingertips, hands, toes, and feet), caused by certain chemotherapeutic agents. The nerve damaging effects of chemotherapy are cumulative and may or may not be reversible.

Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy often include numbness, tingling, pain, weakness, paralysis, ataxia, and a loss of manual dexterity that seriously fucks with the ability to type. These symptoms may cause sufferers to, for example, mistype the word "thong" wherever they meant to say "thing" in a very important document. If such typing errors remain undetected due to hyperopathy, chemo brain, and the limitations of spellcheck, they may lead to unbridled hilarity and/or excessively grave embarrassment.