Feeling like I’ve aged 10 years in a couple of months. Over the past few days I’ve experienced the sort of profound chemo exhaustion that was promised all along, but has now fully sunk in. Last night I slept for 10 hours, was up for one hour to go to radiation this morning and do a quick dog walk, then slept for four more hours. Watched the tube for an hour then fell asleep for three more. It doesn’t even seem possible, but I’m still tired. Inexhaustible exhaustion.
It feels good to check the days off on the calendar. We’re well over halfway through now. Interesting to see this patch on my cheek where there once was hair, now has none. “A landing strip,” the doctor called it, but I believe that phrase has other meanings.
In spite of the missing whiskers, dude, you are looking good and your humor is intact! Here is something to look forward to: after my mom’s surgery and chemo, in her eighties, she was very low energy and getting the in home care she needed. While we were there, one time, we were delighted to witness her sudden (not really, but so it seemed to us) energy recovery!
It was when we were playing games in the living room, she wanted something from the kitchen, one of us started to get up but she literally popped up, just like her old self, and got it for herself. No big deal. We looked at each other like, did that just happen? Did we see that? It was AWESOME.
I love that sudden energy story! SO much looking forward to having that part of me return. I’m still hiking daily, but it’s interleaved with frequent, sudden, long naps, so I’m not really functional in the real world. Go Marla’s Mom!