I am tired of feeling badFeeling bad makes me feel sadI am back to not being able to eatWhich makes me feel nothing but defeat I try so hard to be healthy and strongBut the chemo recovery is now taking so longI get a few good hours a day...
Another day – another whine
So yay! Garmin all charged up, Boo!! NO energy!! I made it through all of my stretching but I only did 1 mile on the bike instead of three and it was a STRUGGLE! Today is all about eating and breathing. My oxygen levels are really down. I wonder...
Like a Private Twitter it is
There is a point during recovery week when I am both nauseated and starving. When all I want to do is eat but the thought of any type of food makes me queasy. Hmmmmm
Resistance is Futile
I have patterns. For the last however long in the mornings I do my 15 minutes of stretching and body lifting and then I do 20-30 minutes of cardio. It is equipment dependent not ambition dependent. I have gained a lot of muscle and moved around a lot of...
Back to Nails
This is day 4 for the Dashing Diva nail strips. I didn’t have a lot of hope for these because the package said you could peel them off for removal. Don’t ever peel things off of your nails especially if your nails are thin like mine, I don’t care...
Not About Nails
Despite the picture in the context of the last two weeks nail strips experiment this post is not about nails but about arthritis of all things! I have arthritis in quite a few of my joints and a recent bout of sudden onset pain in my fingers has me...
The Day that Changed Everything
I get a CTScan every three months. It’s a requirement, along with an echocardiogram of the chemo med I am on. Thankfully technology allows me to see the results as soon as they are read. Normally I get my CT’s early in the day and the results are listed...
Skewed Perspective
I think I am a realist about most things. Facts are facts, and history does often repeat itself. This conversation with myself is not going in the direction you may expect. Having said all of that, why….. When I see myself walking by the mirror or on my camera...
An ode to Stupid
Estrogen is not my friend It causes me many migraines I thought I was done with all this garbage a long time ago But no. The doctors keeps telling me that estrogen cream does not enter the blood stream But yet….here I sit blinded. Bastards.
Pain & Paint
Last night at not a real time o’clock I woke up with a muscle cramp in my calf. It was so bad the muscle (s) tensed up from the bottom of my foot all the way to middle of my rear! OMG I was one giant muscle cramp on...