Title: Cancer fatigue
“The side effects from chemotherapy, some did really surprise me. I knew to expect
the hair loss and the digestive issues, but the fatigue was so unexpected and such
a major hurdle for me during this treatment. It was a surprise. I had no idea. It
was an indescribable fatigue that seemed the biggest battle through the treatment.
The fatigue that I experienced – I remember asking my oncologist the best ways to
alleviate that, and they said exercise. And I thought, ‘I can’t even hold my head
up and yet he wants me to go out and exercise.’ But I did find that if I got up
every day and got dressed every day, and acted like I wasn’t sick, that it just
helped. It made a difference to – I knew if I’d stayed in my pajamas that I would
act sick and feel sick. But I had to make myself get up and do things and to continue
to live.”