I'm having my 3rd chemo session today. As I'm having it every other week, I find that I now count time in 2 weeks chunks;
Day 1 - chemo
Day 2 - steroid high
Day 3 - slipping into the chemo hangover 
Day 4/5/6/7 - chemo hangover, duvet days, achey bones, bleurgh 
Day 8 - feeling exhausted 
Day 9 - feeling better but exhausted 
Day 10 - feeling better and less exhausted 
Days 11/12/13 - feeling good 
And then repeat. Add blood tests, covid tests, visits to the oncologist, ultrasounds, mammograms etc into the mix too, to spice it all up of course! One of the hardest things I've found with this new timeline is just allowing myself to do nothing. Being a working mum of 2 young children, sitting doing nothing isn't something I did much of. But I now know that I need to just lie in bed or have a nap on the sofa and I'm not being lazy. I'm letting my body do what it needs to. Granted, it probably doesn't need to binge watch as much RuPaul's Drag Race but hey, no ones perfect!
I've just enjoyed my few days of feeling good and getting out and about and I'm ready for the cycle to begin again. Knowing that there's good days following the bleurgh days makes them a bit more bearable.
