A while since my last post and that’s been a good thing as I’ve been trying to get back to some normality.
I get reminded by my body when I do too much too quickly so and as I’ve had a couple of false starts I’m taking a return to work very slowly.
I’m now almost two weeks in, admittedly just working mornings for now as that’s all I can manage before exhaustion sets in. But I’m enjoying it and it’s good to use my brain again.
General fitness is still poor and chest can still get tight when I over do things so walks are slowly getting longer again and pace increasing.
Along with the return to work is the fact this is the longest I’ve gone with no symptoms shining through. 11 days. Until today.
I see this as a sign the immunotherapy is having another burst of activity. I’ve felt a bit strange the last 24 hours, a bit light headed, almost tipsy and “twitchy” with a headache. Then I had the joys of waking up with bad constipation. I downed tools at 2pm today and slept for 4hrs straight.
This isn’t a subject people like to share but for cancer patients it’s front and centre. The high dose of painkillers causes it. The flip side is that the immunotherapy can cause bouts of diarrhoea. Lose/Lose
So while unpleasant, I’m constantly treading a fine line of staying in the middle of both. Mostly I win. I have medication for both ailments to swing the balance the other way.
Related to the fitness, I’m a gadget freak so am trying something to see if I can get my lung capacity back to somewhere approaching normal.
I had an Airofit Pro arrive this week and will be doing daily “breath training”. I’ll report back in a few weeks on how successful it is.
I didn’t pay the full price as it was on offer but you can find out more here: Airofit Pro (full disclosure I paid for this myself)
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