When does your body feel 100% again?
It has been quite a journey for me, I officially finished my chemotherapy last year I had 4 cycles of VIP(Cisplatin, etoposide and ifosfamide). My last cycle was terrible, I ended up getting a infection in my blood and almost passed away due to it, I spent a month in the hospital I was in the ICU the majority of it and even had temporary dialysis and blood clots near my heart but I survived. Had to relearn to walk and my body was absolutely weak after I was discharged and had a home nurse come every week to change my IV I had antibiotic medicine attached to my arm for a month. (Man that IV made my arm so SORE!)
So I came to everyone here and too ask, when did YOU feel like your body was back to 100%?
For context prior to my cancer journey, I would go to the gym 6 days a week and my gym sessions were always about 1 - 2 Hours with a mix of cardio and weight lifting
Fast forward to now! A full year and 2 months that I’ve finished chemotherapy I’m really struggling too “find my groove” at the gym my sessions are always about 30 minutes I genuinely feel like I get sore so much faster and the days I need to take to recover are longer and I can’t even lift half the weight I used too.. I’ve been to the doctor and everything checks out I’m healthy I’ve lost about 16LB! Going to the gym the last 3 weeks straight. But it’s like cancer still haunts me some days and it reminds me how long my battle was with cancer that even with time passing it continues to affect me in someway.. if that makes sense? My last post here everyone who decided to interact eased my mind so much. So here I am again just wanting to be heard and I hope everyone here continues fighting, it’s not easy but I promise you life is beautiful and you’ll be okay.