Sunday, December 25, 2022

4th day after chemo


Sunday. It has been 4 days since my first chemo --- and the first day or two I barely had
any side effects, except the expected fatigue and inability to fall asleep at night. 

day4
Sunday morning I woke up unable to bend my fingers, feeling like the Edward Scissorhands character. Even after an hour wearing heater gloves to ease it a bit, the horrible arthritic inflammation was here to stay. Suddenly you realize how little you can do with the unbending fingers.

Beyond that, it was the day as usual -- even managed to finish the rabbit papier-mâché for the upcoming year of the rabbit (mainly drawing eyes) and had dinner and a movie at a friend's house!

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