I’m in my bed trying to wake up. James just came in and put a cup of tea and some cookies on my bed stand. He opened the window blinds to let the light in and headed downstairs. Chess jumped up on the bed and he is lying at the foot of the bed watching the open door looking out for any potential danger – in addition to taking his fourth and fifth morning nap. It’s 8 am and James…
I can’t believe it is a week since I got the first infusion. This week has gone much faster and much better than I thought. The expected nausea has not appeared yet – just a faint queasiness that is lurking in the background ever so often. I have not yet needed to take any anti-nausea medication – what a relief. I do not have diarrhea – yay – quite the opposite in fact – not yay. I am very tired…
Yet again it’s been a long time since I updated you on how I’m doing. I’ve been in a vacuum the last couple of weeks. Often being in a vacuum is regarded as being in a bad state, but this vacuum has been pretty good. I’ve managed to keep the feelings about the upcoming chemotherapy at a distance. I think that’s why I haven’t written a new blog post. I’ve just slowly normalized my days and enjoyed being able to…
I realized that it’s more than a week since I updated the blog. Thanks to both me being more tired than usual, and that we are pretty isolated because of the pandemic, everything is a blur these day. I don’t remember what day it is and which day I did what. Here comes a recap. Monday last week the day was not so good. I was super dizzy and weak. Hot flashes from hell all day and I spent most…
I’ve slowly improved the last week, and both Thursday and Friday I stayed mostly off the couch. After yet another day on the couch on Wednesday I was pretty fed up with the state of affairs and – not surprisingly – found out and decided that I need to have slightly more ambitious goals every day. It is so easy to be lulled into dark and miserable thoughts and staying there is much less complicated than focusing on getting better,…