Chemo number five was spent with my Dad. Another “coffee date” is what I started to call chemotherapy sessions. A place of positivity and healing. We sat, laughed, chatted away and boom soon enough chemo number five, done.
Side effects noticed after week 5 were heart burn and continued constipation. Super fun. I noticed the heart burn when I went up to the mountain to go night skiing again. I was walking up from the car to the lodge and felt like my jaw and neck were on fire. My heart was racing and I became super flushed, thought I was going to pass out. I sat for a minute and gathered myself. Weird, heart burn sucks. I had never had it before but it seemed like an extreme case. I was able to pass the feeling and still night ski but the heart burn never seemed to fully diminish for the duration of my treatment.
On the other hand my appetite was improving and I had a good schedule for my sleep. I had to take Pepcid every day for heart burn and lorazepam the day of and day after chemo to help with sleep. Let me tell you… lorazepam does the trick! However, can be very addictive as it is a Benzodiazepine… so the rest of the week I was working with melatonin. I was also maxed out on stool softeners and laxatives for the duration of treatment for the constipation. My medicine cabinet looked very similar to a small pharmacy. Things were running smoothly, until week number 6…
Mandafit 