Monday, September 17, 2012

WHAT CONDITION MY CONDITION WAS IN

Yikes. I'd heard that the effects of chemo were cumulative. Sure are. This third experience was the toughest one yet. The first week I felt better by the end of the last day of meds. The second week I felt better the day after the end of meds. Two days following the end this time and I'm still achy and beat.

I preached from a stool yesterday, and didn't feel like expending energy singing, either. By the end of service I felt a bit better and we went to a light lunch. I spent the afternoon in bed because I just couldn't face laps in the pool. Today I got up expecting to resume my "normal" abbreviated schedule. But after going out to breakfast I decided to skip errands and go back to bed. I did finally get back in the pool this afternoon for a short thirty-minutes.

Beyond the aches and exhaustion, the worst part is my dead taste buds. Apparently, since chemo attacks fast-growing cells taste buds are a prime target. Everything tastes like... John Nance Gardner's description of the value of the office of the Vice President: "a pitcher of warm spit." Oh, well; three down, three to go. Nothing for it, but to make the best of it and see it through.  ...Actually, I was beginning to feel a bit guilty at how easy it had been to this point.

Well. as Super Chicken says to his sidekick Fred; "You knew the job was dangerous when you took it." 


4 comments:

Eric said...

Sorry to hear about the cumulative effects. Hope you're better soon.

Carol Anne Wright Swett said...

6 r rr((praying every day))

bentrivka.com said...

Chemo is tough business, no way around it. Sounds like you're doing your best...even if your best is sleeping the day away. Rest is a part of healing, though for a go getter, understanding that is the true challenge!

Prayers from a stranger are with you, not to be confused with strange prayers. :)

Anonymous said...

Dear Don, repeat after me, "The Lord's grace is sufficient, the Lord's grace is sufficient, the Lord's grace is sufficient......

Rob and I will keep praying for GOBS of GRACE for you!!!