PROGRESS: Day 1.2

I decided that I wanted to do progress updates mostly to keep track of how I’m feeling from day to day so that I can talk to my doctor about it. I also decided that I’m going to count my days by week of treatment followed by the day of the week – hence the “1.2” (Week 1, Day 2).

Physical feelings

Today I actually felt great. I woke up this morning after a great rest. My body battery (according to my Garmin watch) fully charged! That hasn’t happened in over a week, probably thanks to all the Benadryl. I didn’t have any nausea last night or today either. I also felt very motivated to work out, which I wanted to do when I was feeling like it just in case I got too tired or demotivated by the end of the day. Now that I’m post-surgery by 3 weeks, I was able to get on my bike for an excellent (feeling) ride! I have clearly lost quite a bit of fitness in the 6.5 weeks hiatus from cycling, but my goal was to stay in Zone 2 and not push too hard. Maybe at some point I’ll cover my intended fitness plan in a future blog post.

My mother-in-law and I also took Ginny for a nice walk and went to check on Maddie’s foam party today at school! She looked like she was having an absolute blast! They had a DJ playing music and huge piles of foam! All in all, it was a good day and I think I tolerated the chemo pretty well. I know that it will get harder as I make it through treatments though, so I will just have to pace my activities and listen to my body.

The only other noteworthy thing is that I feel like I have some heartburn. I’m not sure if that’s related to my chemo or just an unlucky coincidence. I know I’m supposed to avoid fried, spicy or acidic foods around my treatment. Who knows?!

Emotion feelings

Emotionally, I’m feeling positive as well. It feels like a great achievement to be over the hump of the first treatment (on hump day no less!). I’m a little nervous about the physical feelings I’m feeling (or not). It sounds weird to worry about whether or not you are or are not feeling physical sensations, but I am anticipating that I’m going to feel bad at some point. I suppose I will know when they come and it’ll be incredibly obvious and I won’t need to worry about it.

It’s a bit funny, because when they told me that I would be doing a 12-week treatment regimen, it made me think of all the 12-week exercise programs out there. Years ago, I did the P90X program that is actually a 13-week program and I came close, but didn’t finish it. I think I got to week 10 and caught a cold and couldn’t finish it out. I’m not really sure I’ve done any other 12-week plans or anything, but I’m batting 0-1. It will be a lot harder not to complete this regimen since I have so many people pushing me along and a ton of motivation. But when I think about the fact that I’m on Day 2 of 84 (!!), I think that I shouldn’t think about that because it makes it sound too daunting! Just take it day by day!