{"id":4834,"date":"2005-11-20T22:57:41","date_gmt":"2005-11-20T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4834"},"modified":"2025-09-24T00:25:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:25:54","slug":"fatigue_update_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4834","title":{"rendered":"Fatigue update and coming week schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I finished the first RICE chemotherapy protocol on November 7<sup>th<\/sup>, and now 13 days later, I still feel a bit fatigued at times. Again, nothing dramatic, at times just a bit lethargic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">And I am feeling it in the gym. My weights program is the same as when I started chemo (Sept. 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2 and a half months ago!), but my cardiovascular capacity is way off. And I don\u2019t need any sophisticated test to figure it out. I get winded a lot quicker then before the RICE therapy. With the RCHOP therapy &#8211; the previous chemo protocol &#8211; by the time the two weeks had passed between the CHOP&#8217;s, I was back to normal on the bike and ellyptical trainer. Not with the RICE.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">I presume my red blood cell count is down and that\u2019s the cause. On Wednesday I will see the lymphoma guru, Dr. Zelenetz, and find out for sure. Seeing him is part of the schedule for RICE. We meet, he tells me I\u2019m OK (hopefully) and I get the Rituxin treatment (The R in RICE) after the meeting. Then Thursday is Turkey Day. On Saturday, back into Sloan Kettering for the ICE part of RICE, identical to RICE #1 and takes about 48 hours. I will get out Monday afternoon or evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span face=\"Times New Roman\">As with RICE #1, for RICE #2 one of the staff will take a picture of me (in those spiffy hospital clothes), and I\u2019ll put it on the laptop, and then post it to this journal. Why not? It\u2019s tedious sitting around a hospital with constantly running IV&#8217;s and posting a picture from a hospital bed gives me a feeling of technological accomplishment (even though it\u2019s very easy). Sounds idiotic (and it is) but also true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished the first RICE chemotherapy protocol on November 7th, and now 13 days later, I still feel a bit fatigued at times. Again, nothing dramatic, at times just a bit lethargic. And I am feeling it in the gym. My weights program is the same as when I started chemo (Sept. 6th, 2 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6469,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4834\/revisions\/6469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}