Sick and Tired😩😭

I was too tired to write at chemo today. I came home and fell asleep as I usually do now after chemo. I am feeling tired, nauseated, and achy, I have a headache, and my hands and feet are tingly.  In other words, I had my Zometa infusion along with chemo today. 😩 I will probably have a rough next couple of days. I am going to try to listen to my body and really take it easy Thursday and Friday because Saturday is the breast cancer 5K, and I am going to do it because it is going to be sunny and 70 degrees out, and I will enjoy being down by the water!

I really feel like I am having chemo brain for the first time ever this past week. I am usually so good with dates and times, and you know me and my calendar! But I messed up the times of two things on my calendar — my hair appt. and my first art therapy workshop. I missed it last night, thinking it started when it actually ended. I was really looking forward to it, so I was bummed I missed it. But I got the worksheet and will do the exercise before the next class. It is about being grateful and listing all the things we’re grateful for. I have always thought being grateful is so important to being and staying positive on this journey. I can list lots I am grateful for. Not sure at all yet how to turn that into art??  Yikes! We’ll see what I come up with?! I’ll tell you about that in my next blog! My daughter called me a little while ago, and I asked her how her first night at her new job went last night. She said that tonight is her first night. I feel like I am going crazy. I am really hoping it is just chemo brain?! Either that or I have too much going on, and I should really listen to my body and rest the next couple of days even though I don’t want to!

Tomorrow is National Metastatic Breast Cancer Day. I might normally do or say something about this day, but I am so tired and not feeling like it right now. If I see anything to share tomorrow and I am feeling better, maybe I will post. Otherwise, I just want to thank you all for your support on this long journey of mine. I know many of you have learned just as much about metastatic breast cancer as I have. I sometimes still get asked when I will be done with treatment, or someone will comment that they didn’t know I was in treatment again, or they’ll say they’re happy that my cancer is gone. I don’t mind because I know it’s just that people haven’t heard of metastatic cancer or don’t know what it means or entails. I had no idea what it was and what it meant until I got cancer.  So, I’m glad there’s an awareness day for it, and people can learn more about it. The more people learn about it, the more they can be supportive of it, its cure, and those who are going through it.

I’ll write again in a couple of weeks, after my art therapy session or from chemo the next day. Stay safe and healthy, everyone!