Writing this down for my own reference later, no need for comments. Haven't been on the computer at all today due to really feeling like crap. Chemo pills may be finally kicking in.
Let's just call it a 5 spoons day.
My usual sleeping situation is waking every two hours to pee, lately it's done that but then around 4 am i have a semi painful urgency for a bm. The kind where it's lower intestinal gurgle and pain. Not too bad at that hour but notable. slightly irritated in back of my throat as well. Slightly nauseous with some cold sweats while on the toilet.
This morning I woke up with the same pain but in a sense, worse. What I call 'spasm coughing' and with some upper chest congestion recently. It is mostly on the left side so I am thinking it's connected to the chemo treatment pills. Had to look up the side effects and I'm due for an ECG on Monday before I talk to the oncologist on Wednesday.
I took my morning pills with a banana then went right back to bed. I felt like crap. Tried to rest and nap for about 2 hours but poor Rocky didn't understand what was going on. He would try and climb on my chest and then go paw at the door so it was fitful rest for sure. Just fatigued and can't describe the general feeling other than over all crappy. I haven't taken any of my supplements or ibuprofen because of how i feel.
Only time I got out of bed longer than to go to the bathroom was so I could clean out Rocky's box. Had Jon take it outside I put on sweatpants and my slip on shoes, did the cleaning then had him bring it back in and I went back to bed.
Around 3:00 managed a half bowl of chicken flavor top ramen (asked Jon to fix it for me) and a few Ritz crackers then thankfully I was able to hunker down and get a good deep 2 hour nap. That felt great because usually it's just a light sleep or 'dozing'. Not 100% but much better than I had in the morning. Rocky even slept at the foot of the bed and left me alone. I woke up a bit and rolled onto my back, I felt him walk over and he laid down between my arm and my hip. That was a nice feeling to have him there instead of on my chest. moving around. But I was awake and then had to go to the bathroom.
Finally around 8:30 I was actually feeling a bit hungry. Yesterday I had told Jon I wanted to get sandwiches today. Well that plan went out the window this morning So the best I could manage was a single slice of ham on rye bread for 'dinner'.
So yeah. I remember feeling REALLY crappy when I was getting chemo treatments before. This isn't nearly as bad but has some of the same feel. I hope I feel better tomorrow, we need some groceries and Jon has a prescription to pick up.
You know that feeling where it's not like you're in pain or tired just bleh. The idea of standing long enough and moving 'vigorously' in a shower was more than I could handle today. I didn't even do any knitting and it's all sitting right within reach. I didn't feel like I had enough energy to even write this down until about 9:30. It's almost 10 now. Despite sitting around all day and getting a few naps I have full confidence in being able to sleep tonight.
It's exhausting being sick like this. And on top of all this I have to do some pre-colonoscopy prep prep. They sent me a message on the app and gave me two phone number to call on Friday. I didn't see them until it was after 4:30. No one is in the office on the weekend so everything has to happen on Monday.
Since I'm doing this on the laptop I don't have access to my usual jpg images like the sick phone... but yeah.
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