Just the Facts
Hi all. Jim and I realized that we haven’t sent out an update in quite a while. There have been a few changes to my situation since the last one. First and foremost is that fact that we originally said that I didn’t really have many side effects with the current chemo regimen. Perhaps we jinxed it when we wrote that… Not long after we sent out that little nugget, it got hit with pretty bad fatigue. It’s daily, and some days are even worse than others. Fatigue, for the uninitiated, is not just a sense of tired. In my experience, it’s a full-body phenomenon. When the fatigue “hits” me, it’s like all of my muscles hit a wall and just have zero energy to give. I can be having a fairly decent morning, but when the fatigue comes, everything grinds to a halt. All I can do is sleep at that point. Some days, the fatigue waits until 11:00 am or so to kick in. Then I spend several hours asleep, or at the least, lying down because I can’t do anything else. Other days, I get so far as pouring ...