It's Exhausting!!

What I want to share is the pure exhaustion you feel the subsequent weeks after treatment.  This is probably why they give it to you every third week--so you can recover. It feels exactly like what it is--your cells are dying and with that hopefully, the cancer. I am trying to walk through the tiredness when possible.  John and I go to East Bank Club and one thing you can do for yourself is to build muscle.  When you have lymphadema, as I do, then you need to be careful to NOT overdo on the side of the lymph node removal.  I am stressing all the complications because if this had been caught in Stage One as it should have been the further problems of chemo and lymphadema would NOT have occurred.  And therein lies the message. Ladies, regular screening mammograms are NOT enough and YOU control them do not let your doctor bully you into thinking those are ok.  Maybe for very small-breasted women between 35 and 50 but I would submit to you FIGHT for a better mammogram. Insurance companies do NOT want you to have them--but fight for them--especially if you have any gut feelings, close family members with it, early menses, late live first childbirth, dense breasts etc.  Let's stop letting insurance companies run our lives!!! Although I have to commend mine--Blue Cross has been fabulous through this!