Fatigue is still part of daily life. I remember when I first felt the fatigue from cancer and its treatment, it was so overwhelming it was hard to describe. It’s still like that. Although I am not sleeping most of the day as I had been, I tire easily from any kind of activity. It used to be that I could barely talk without getting worn out; that has improved. I can talk again pretty much like the champ that I am .
Cancer fatigue feels like it comes from the depth of your being, a feeling of being tired that is like nothing else I have ever experienced. During my life of working out and dancing, teaching classes four nights a week and all day Saturday from early morning to mid-afternoon, I knew the feeling of being exhausted from activity. It was a great feeling. After a little rest, it was like an entire regeneration of mind and body. I loved the effects of training, feeling the increase in strength, endurance and power. There is no other feeling quite like it.
With cancer the fatigue is like a thick fog that rolls over you and obliterates your view of all your surroundings. You cannot feel anything because the fatigue veils all of your sensations: your energy, your desire, your enthusiasm. Even now when it is not as pervasive as it was, it is still a force that can totally control me.
So, today, I felt like I had run head first into a brick wall. I could barely walk up the stairs, and I could do nothing but sleep. And, that’s what I did. For a while. But, when I awoke, I recovered enough to go to the store with a friend and enjoy the companionship and laughter we shared. Such simple joy that means so very much.
Fatigue is still part of daily life. I remember when I first felt the fatigue from cancer and its treatment, it was so overwhelming it was hard to describe. It’s still like that. Although I am not sleeping most of the day as I had been, I tire easily from any kind of activity. It used to be that I could barely talk without getting worn out; that has improved. I can talk again pretty much like the champ that I am
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Cancer fatigue feels like it comes from the depth of your being, a feeling of being tired that is like nothing else I have ever experienced. During my life of working out and dancing, teaching classes four nights a week and all day Saturday from early morning to mid-afternoon, I knew the feeling of being exhausted from activity. It was a great feeling. After a little rest, it was like an entire regeneration of mind and body. I loved the effects of training, feeling the increase in strength, endurance and power. There is no other feeling quite like it.
With cancer the fatigue is like a thick fog that rolls over you and obliterates your view of all your surroundings. You cannot feel anything because the fatigue veils all of your sensations: your energy, your desire, your enthusiasm. Even now when it is not as pervasive as it was, it is still a force that can totally control me.
So, today, I felt like I had run head first into a brick wall. I could barely walk up the stairs, and I could do nothing but sleep. And, that’s what I did. For a while. But, when I awoke, I recovered enough to go to the store with a friend and enjoy the companionship and laughter we shared. Such simple joy that means so very much.
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