Having cancer and being in hospice for it now, I see a lot of similarities that I've learned from research and my sessions with my Hospice nurse. First and formost, I would relate your schedule to be a busy one. Slow down and realize that your chemo, cancer affects on various organ systems all takes its toll. Even now, I would seek to find a caregiver or support group to help you with your many chores, or your going to wear yourself out before your time. Your system needs rest in order to try and make up some of what it has lost. Next, your not as young as you were, taking into consideration, what cancer, chemo, etc. have taken away from your system.

With my Islet Cell Cancer, when I started to see differences in what I could do, I wanted to know why? That was the answerr, over time cancer had taken so much away; that "I began to live one day at a time and seek to enjoy what my Oncologist, team, and I called the Quality of life." Not over doing or underdoing, but being comfortable with what I did each day.

It's often hard to recognize when you can't see it "such as being BEAT or fatigued, you've run out of your body will allow you to do comfortablythat your body no longer has--that's fatigue. Also, your seldom able to renew or restore lost energy as fast as you once did.

Re-evaluate what you can do within your means, while not doing too much too fast.

irvkay312

I'm also fatigued from recurrence chemo

Thank you Lacey you have been such a great help and I will pray for you. There is no support group near here and I hear what you are saying. Fortunately my boys are 16 and 18 and can help. I live on 3 acres and love getting outside in the fresh air. Things are crazy now right before school starts but once it does my boys will be gone all day. I am just tired of feeling bad.

Ladies, Cancer is one of the most complex and overwhelming of diseases we can come to encounter. Most of you have come to realize as you travel this path that "there is no majic pill, chemo, or traetment." That's because our bodies all differ in their systematic actions and adverse affects relative to treatments often used--chemo too. Realize our age and body changes every minute of every day, which we often don't see, but only feel when the burden becomes overwhelming to us, our body, or our desired pursuits in life. So what's the answer, "it is that no one size fits all in most respects or aspects."

My cancer started as Islet Cell, somewhat middle pancreas (that controls our bodies basic enzymes for digestion and hormones for other body operations). The first treatment was 28 radiation treatments. Next came 2 cycles of intravenious chemo that I felt and saw all types of affects with. The next thing that came, since we had seen positive results so far, was targeted chemo of 15 cycles--12 of pancreas and 3 of kidneys, where Islet Cell was said to mestasize too.

With every day, my diet became less, as did my energy and fatigue increased drastically in area's I never thought possible. I tried one last item to slow the tumor growth and it didn't work. Consequently, it had taken so much out of me, my system and my abilities, that walking a short distance for my meal; eating small snacks so as not to over burden my digestive system and even occasional sips came to tire or fatigue me to needing a nap more and more often. since my cancer had mestasized to several

As my Hospice team told me at their last visit, much energy is being sought by your body that you simply don't have. Another item of concern to me was that even with the small amounts of food eaten, no energy was attained--because the Liver didn't metabolise their contents properly into my system for absorption; but released them as waste. That was only part. The other part was that the chemo that was said capable of causing reactions 5 plus years after its use, had also caused my kidneys to enter Stage 3 Chronic Kidney Disease.

At this stage of my life, in hospice for only two months; things are becoming more noticeable. Having had 4 stages (types) of epilepsy I do feel was a blessing as noted by my Epileptologist--since"if or when you'd black out short or what ever, it seemed like the end had come. Similarly, I came to realize how those actions came to confuse the mind and body when the seizure was concluded. So I seek to enjoy the Quality of Life to its fullest and within my means, each day.

irvkay312

This is natural Rena, give it some time, you need plenty of rest if you have just gone through Chemo, they are very strong drugs ( after all, they are killing off the bad guys ), it will get better down the road, keep trying to get a little exercise each day, but don't over-do it. Talk to God, he listens, God Bless, Lacey