I am feeling a bit better every day. I certainly feel there’s been noticeable improvement since last Saturday.
My chemo-fatigue has lessened quite a bit. I am no longer – as I did the first two weeks – sleeping late and taking an afternoon big nap. Now it’s one or the other, and the nap is short. (As I’ve mentioned in the past, naps don’t help much with chemo-fatigue anyway. I think it’s more psychological.) The last several days I was in the office for over four hours, instead of two and a half hours, as I had been doing.
I have been taking 25 – 30 minute walks four or five days a week. I feel a bit tired afterwards, but not exhausted or all puffed out.
My sense of taste is also returning. The metallic taste is dissipating. But I still have no desire to eat certain things, especially sweet things (But salty things – bring ’em on!).
So I would say I am about 70% normal.
An exception – 00.00% normal in the hair department. It’s also the five week anniversary of my last chemotherapy (the six days of high dose chemo at the start of the 20 day hospitalization) but no sign at all of the return of any hair. Of course, I’m so used to having no hair by now, that it almost feels normal – except when I go out for a walk in 28 degree weather. I always wear a hat, even in the house. My head just gets too cold, I suppose because I went from a full head of hair to no hair at all.
I see Dr. Kewalramani this coming Thursday, and then start on Rituxin, once a week for four weeks.
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