Sunday, August 3, 2008

Tired

For those of you who have been following my blogging, sorry, I've been a little busy :) Over the past month, I've gone through two more rounds of chemo. That's right boys and girls, that means I only have one more round until surgery time!! WOO HOO! Then I have about a month and a half off of chemo while I recover from my surgery. Thank heaven for small favors right!

So, where did I leave off. After the first round of chemo, the side effects that can come, did. I got the mouth sores (which I guess I'm even more prone too because I got them even before I got sick), I got the indegestion and what we will call "stomach issues". My "stomach issues" have changed through the different rounds of chemo, but I'm just hoping they don't get worse. I haven't gotten sick as in throw-upy sick (is that a word??), but I have gotten nauseous a couple times here and there. Thank goodness for anti-nauseau meds!

The worst thing about the side effects of the chemo is the complete and total lack of energy! For those of you who have had a really good massage, you know how your body just feels completely weak afterwords? Or for those of you who just get so tired that your arms or some other part of your body feels like it weighs 900 lbs and doesn't want to move? That is how I feel ALL THE TIME. Gets pretty old! I was seriously lying on the couch the other night and woke up from a nap around 8pm. It honestly took me an hour to get off of the couch, go to the fridge to get some applesauce since I hadn't eaten since 3:30 that afternoon, and go back to the couch and finally eat the applesauce. I mean come on! I ended up sending a text message to my husband telling him that I seriously thought he might find my dying carcas on the couch because I couldn't move! Then when he finally got home, he put me to bed, but my stomach wasn't liking the idea of going to sleep. So I got back up, took some meds and grabbed a piece of bread to eat and layed my head on Morgan's stomach. It took me almost 30 minutes to eat the bread because although my head is saying eat, my body is say F**k you, that takes to much energy! First you want me to bring the food to your lips, then you want me to open your mouth, then you want to chew and swallow??? Who do you think you are??