Night Howls
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Sometimes, on one of my multiple awakenings every bloody night, I forget for a brief second that I'm having yet another ferocious hot flush, and think that I've got a fever.1
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Sunrise this morning while I was walking. Only managed 3km today as I didn't want a repeat of yesterday's humiliating debacle (just made it!).
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Similar here @arpie. Awake from 0430 to 0700... The day is wrecked before it's even started.
Three weeks ago I told my oncologist about my ongoing sleep issues. She looked sympathetic, said I needed a good anaesthetic and laughed. That was it. I remain surprised by the breast cancer medical community's lack of care and concern about the sleep issues so many of us seem to have through diagnosis and treatment.
She's leaving private practice so I have to get a new onc. Might be a good thing.1 -
@Sister @SoldierCrab A friend staying the night woke up and made the fastest bee-line for a bathroom I've ever seen. They'd woken up pooping slurry and wrapped themselves in the bed sheet to avoid making a bigger mess before reaching the toilet. There was poopie everywhere. The shame on their face is still etched into my memory. The thing is, our embarrassment levels are wildly disproportionate to the amount anyone is judging. I don't think less of them in the slightest, even at the time I was only concerned about their health. Our bodies do things we can't control and only an ass with horrendous double-standards would hold it against you. There's nothing undignified about being struck by an adversity and handling the situation with a minimal amount of fuss, quite the opposite.
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I was telling my surgeon @kmakm about the sleep disturbances relating to the tamoxifen - she said she has many patients tell her this and I can only hope it will even out. Luckily I never had a poop incident during chemo - there was only on day I was concerned about it and spent a lot of time of the loo.0
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Me too @Kiwi Angel, just one day in my first cycle. Then I was as clogged as the Monash Freeway on the Friday night of a long weekend...6
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Everyone keeps saying to get walking but currently I’m in fear of being anymore than a 30 second sprint of a toilet. I reckon if I could walk to the corner and back without incident it would be a good thing0
