Aug 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
I’d like a day where I don’t think about chemo and it’s work. What would I think about? It feels like it has always been in my life when actually it hasn’t. I am only 13 weeks into this chapter of my life but it seems like 13 years. I am left...
Aug 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
I swear I did not sleep one full hour last night. It took three hours to actually fall asleep. Meditation and Zopiclone didn’t touch me. I read and finished my book, willing my body to close itself off and rest. I hate nights like these. You watch the clock and...
Aug 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Up and down – symptoms here – symptoms not. Hot flushes ahoy – take temperature but it’s fine. Menopause? Tacky head – a blast of fire through my cheeks and a glaze of sweat on my forehead. I look like a Christmas ham! Wouldn’t it...
Aug 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
The joys of chemotherapy. I wake up feeling fine. I’m not sick – I’m not hot – I can move freely again. As the day progresses my analytical mind starts to believe I’ve took one big 15 hour hit and now I’m going to be OK. I’ll...
Aug 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
You just know it is chemo day. Eyes open. Yep. Chemo today. I used to get that similar feeling on a Sunday. Know what I mean? It just feels like a certain day. And that has settled in with chemo day – every third Wednesday. I would know the smell and feel of the...