CynthiaWVirginia
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Joined: 2/28/2010 From: West Virginia, USA Status: offline
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I admit that the antibiotic I'm on won't allow me to take my vitamins nor my calcium pills, and it makes me so sensitive to the sun that after fifteen minutes outside I look scalded, in an ugly blotchy kind of way. The weeds haven't just taken over my yard...they're throwing a victory party. I admit that my energy level this past month sucks, even for me. I start each day with a small amount of spoons and this bronchitis (am on 4th week) has left me maybe half and sometimes just a third, depending the day. In other words, I'm totally exhausted from putting away just one load of laundry and sorting clothes for another load. (Most of the work was done while sitting on my bed.) When I'm this wiped out it takes me about three hours of sitting on the couch to get enough energy to do 10-15 more minutes of work. I admit that my taste buds have been crazy off whack...and two of the three brands of popsicles I bought seem to taste strongly of plastic. Three days ago I had to remove all green bell pepper from my salad because they tasted horrible...and yet when my son took a bite he said they tasted just fine to him. When I had a (from a box mix) brownie, all I could taste was way too much sugar and I tossed it out. All of this reminded me of the times when I was having chemo and it made my favorite soda pops (Dr. Pepper, Mr. Pibb, and root beer, at that time) taste like someone had poured Pine Sol into them. I admit that I had some root beer and grape soda (I have to limit myself to one to two servings per day or my interstitial cystitis doubles me over)...and these were delicious beyond belief. If anyone had told me that grape soda pop would taste better than a triple chocolate brownie, I would have laughed in his face. I admit that none of my docs have had their receptionists phoning me urgently to set up another appointment (this is after the most recent CT Scans and surgical biopsies)...so I'm reasonably sure that I don't have the big C again. I thought/hoped this daily bleeding for 1 3/4 years is hormonal and I'm glad it seems that I haven't just been whistling in the dark. (Having had cancer four times already is enough.)
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