Dear Alicia
Life on Chemo does get tedious. I have been on something continuous for almost 5 years. Day to day is how most of us do it. I just had a month of really being down. So i had the dr. up my antidepressant. When I feel good I do something to have fun and I also find something to do to be useful
I don't know if you still work . Work can help but it can be stressful too. So rethink what you want in life.
Each time my chemo is changes I have a new set of sytoms. So i learn how to deal with them and then life is better. Prayer and time with God helps. but sometimes He seems far away. but I remember feelings are not all there is to our relationship with Him. He is there wither we feel it are not.
Get you rest and know its okay to say I can't do it. Enjoy nature and the life that is all around you. Never stop questioning you doctors. I had a large lump growing in my rt breast and I didn't want to go throuh surgery again. So i asked for radation. Never the radiaologist or the oncologist felt it would work but they okayed it and it worked. You know your body listen to it. Research new options for treatment. My goal is to kept having treatments until new treatments are developed that work better. Take care of want you have. Eat, rest, use your supplements and wake up thankful to see a new day .
I have had some real challenges in the pass few months. I had major lung surgery in Nov and have a chest tube that may or may not come out someday. I how have an ulcer in my mouth that will be biospied.So say a little pray for me. I feel over whlemed sometimes. but life goes on and it better to live each day then give in to being overwheled.
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God bless and keep you Marie