I had chemotherapy for triple negative breast cancer ten years ago. I wore the frozen feet slippers to reduce neuropathy side effects. By the end my big toe nail had gone white but didn’t fall off. I know it’s common to loose nails during chemo. I just assumed it was a dead nail and would grow out. Two years later it hadn’t so my Gp sent toe nail clippings off for culture and it came back as Paecilomyces lilacinus. At the time I googled it and was very worried but my Gp was quite relaxed about it and recommended either letting it grow out, trying antifungal nail varnish or antifungal tablets but these could affect my liver. At the time I decided to try the nail varnish. Then somehow I managed to forget how worried I was and I’ve lived with it ever since. My nail has improved hugely over the last ten years but it’s still slightly yellow at the top. For various reasons I have remembered the infection recently and got very worried about it. I’m worried my house will be full of fungal spores that my son or husband could pick up. My adult son is due to come home and stay for a shoulder operation. Online it says it’s incredibly rare and generally only affects immunocompromised patients but I’m panicking. So just wondering how common it now is in chemo patients and if more is known about it. Long term I would like to get rid of it from my toe nail. So interested in other peoples experiences. Thank you.