{"id":6664,"date":"2011-09-15T14:03:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=6664"},"modified":"2011-09-15T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T00:49:10","slug":"chemo-journal-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=6664","title":{"rendered":"Chemo Journal-Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>September 15-Day 4<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wow, has it been 4 days?\u00a0 In some ways that sounds crazy and in others it feels like an eternity.\u00a0 I woke up this morning more uncomfortable physically, but a little more ready for what lies ahead emotionally.\u00a0 I just have to get used to this.\u00a0 This is my temporary new normal.\u00a0 Accept and go on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(You know I&#8217;m no doctor, nurse or any other medical know-it-all, so take what I say as only a non-medicalish person will.)\u00a0 Yesterday, I ached in my upper body, today it&#8217;s been in my back, chest, hips and knee areas.\u00a0 I swear the Nulasta shot that I had on Day 2 started in my upper body and has slowly spread down.\u00a0 Crazy, I know.\u00a0 I suspect my ankles and feet to be sore tomorrow, but let&#8217;s hope not.\u00a0 Today, even breathing deeply causes soreness and just moving wears me out.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never napped so much in my life.\u00a0 However, spiritually, I feel better.\u00a0 Yesterday, I felt defeated.\u00a0 Today, I&#8217;ve realized that I have to accept and move on.\u00a0 I think this helps tremendously.\u00a0 Sure, I&#8217;m going to hurt.\u00a0 But this is temporarily.\u00a0 My body is kicking some major cancer booty right now, which is kicking my booty right now too.\u00a0 I can deal.\u00a0 I just have to be patient.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Overall Day 4:<\/strong> No nausea.\u00a0 No nausea meds.\u00a0 Advil for pain.\u00a0 Sore throat, back, hips and knees.\u00a0 Better spirits!\u00a0 Everything still tastes weird.\u00a0 (Except tomato basil soup from Midnight Rooster, thanks mom!)\u00a0 Lots of naps today.\u00a0 Very tired.\u00a0 Tomorrow is Friday. I have a hair cut with my girl, Becky!\u00a0 Looking forward to a fabulous weekend with a short new do.\u00a0 I hope I have the energy to enjoy a bit of cooler weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 15-Day 4 Wow, has it been 4 days?\u00a0 In some ways that sounds crazy and in others it feels like an eternity.\u00a0 I woke up this morning more uncomfortable physically, but a little more ready for what lies ahead emotionally.\u00a0 I just have to get used to this.\u00a0 This is my temporary new normal.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6668,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6664\/revisions\/6668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}