We all know chemo is hard but for it to truly work you kind of have to embrace it. It you spend your whole treatment scared and worried and it will be very much harder on you. So after a really good conversation with my doctor after the second round of chemo here is my plan going forward.
Because I ride my bike allot and miss it, chemo is my "bike ride"
So what does that really mean... well day one for chemo "infusion day" your body gets loaded with all the chemicals for the ride. So day one you get loaded up! Then you go home and start the drive of your life. Day one is like getting on the bike and riding all day your tired, just done and need to sleep. Day two you are still tired but you have to ride small hills and some hard ones. Day three and four are mountain days you will ride hard you will throw-up hard. Your body hurts (everything hurts) Think of yourself as on the ride if you win you really win. SO you peddle your ass off and puck at the top of the mountain. You can puke for hours (this isn't food puking this is chemicals puking from the bottom of your body and all the way up. But then at the end of Day 4 you have a bath the kind you add more hot water half way thru cause at this very point and moment nothing hurts and all is quite, and you want it to last as long as possible. I refilled the bath twice it was the best place on earth at that momment :) Day Five slept well and was able to get my breathfast smoothie down. Had to have a bit of a conversation with it to stay but it did. But still biking today small rollers so waves of good and bad, but moving forward. By the end of the week my bike ride will be done so we reat up and get ready for the next one. With only three weeeks between treatments it really is like training for an event.
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