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fatigue and a handy tool for remembering

Posted Aug 28 2009 8:16pm

Some days working, and even just talking, exhausts me beyond description. Meetings drain me. When I work at the computer (most of my work), I try hard to take breaks. I work from about 7:00 to 9:00 and then break for a bit. I work again till about 11:00 and break again. Sometimes after that I forget to break, and at the end of the day I feel like I’ll fall over. It’s like every ounce of me is completely worn out. Even my eyelids are so heavy I can’t even hold them open. This back brace gets heavier as I get more tired and very wobbly, making my walker an absolute buddy.

Marvin reminds me that I had major surgery and am still recuperating from that. I guess with all of the attention on the cancer, I forget that the back surgery still affects me. I’m approaching the three-month anniversary of my surgery, so I guess it’s going pretty well. I try to walk a bit every day. It makes me feel good even though it takes a lot of effort for me to amble along even at my slow pace. When I get a few blocks from home, I take a photo in Evernote®.

I love this program. It tracks the location of the notes you create (very nice feature) so there’s a record of my location. You can use this function to help you remember where you park your car :) –something sublimely helpful for those of us who get distracted from such details while shopping or attending events. One time in New York City my friend and I had to walk for three hours to find our car. Had we had this nifty tool, we’d have saved our blistered feet.

For anyone going through cancer therapy, it’s a great tool to help us remember fun stuff and critical information. Sometimes the influx of information is so high that it’s hard to digest it. I clip info to Evernote so I can read it later. One super feature of Evernote is that you can make notes to go with a page—like why  you were interested in the clipping or what you want to do with it later when you pull it up again. Check it out. You will be impressed. No, I don’t work for or have any kind of connection with Evernote; I just think it rocks.

Some days working, and even just talking, exhausts me beyond description. Meetings drain me. When I work at the computer (most of my work), I try hard to take breaks. I work from about 7:00 to 9:00 and then break for a bit. I work again till about 11:00 and break again. Sometimes after that I forget to break, and at the end of the day I feel like I’ll fall over. It’s like every ounce of me is completely worn out. Even my eyelids are so heavy I can’t even hold them open. This back brace gets heavier as I get more tired and very wobbly, making my walker an absolute buddy.

Marvin reminds me that I had major surgery and am still recuperating from that. I guess with all of the attention on the cancer, I forget that the back surgery still affects me. I’m approaching the three-month anniversary of my surgery, so I guess it’s going pretty well. I try to walk a bit every day. It makes me feel good even though it takes a lot of effort for me to amble along even at my slow pace. When I get a few blocks from home, I take a photo in Evernote®.

I love this program. It tracks the location of the notes you create (very nice feature) so there’s a record of my location. You can use this function to help you remember where you park your car :) –something sublimely helpful for those of us who get distracted from such details while shopping or attending events. One time in New York City my friend and I had to walk for three hours to find our car. Had we had this nifty tool, we’d have saved our blistered feet.

For anyone going through cancer therapy, it’s a great tool to help us remember fun stuff and critical information. Sometimes the influx of information is so high that it’s hard to digest it. I clip info to Evernote so I can read it later. One super feature of Evernote is that you can make notes to go with a page—like why  you were interested in the clipping or what you want to do with it later when you pull it up again. Check it out. You will be impressed. No, I don’t work for or have any kind of connection with Evernote; I just think it rocks.

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