Crawling back into the saddle...

[alexpgp]

When I rose from my afternoon nap at 3 pm, I took stock of the day and realized I was sleeping my life away. Of the day's total of 15 hours, I had spent 11 of them unconscious, and had precious little to show for the other four (I got up, got driven around some, and ate lunch).

Yesterday marked the one-week anniversary of the start of treatment for my prostate cancer, and one month since going under the knife for the bypass. Of course, the part that's immediately perceptible is the recovery from the bypass, although I'm perplexed as to why my ability to breathe—especially while talking—keeps coming and going with no pattern that I can discern.

But I should probably stop babbling on about my heath, because I don't recall being terribly interested in such recitations from my elders when I was younger and healthier.

In point of fact, between 3 pm and now, I managed to sit down and get a healthy chunk of work done, and I expect to be able to pull of the same stunt tomorrow—hopefully without all the shuteye—along with taking some concrete action to bring my idea for a video course to fruition.

Cheers...

Comments

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

How or why is the day on a 15 hour cycle? O_o

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Oh, I didn't mean to imply anything like that.

I merely noted, upon arising from a nap at 3 pm, that I had spent 11 of the day's 15 elapsed hours asleep.

This circumstance might not have raised my eyebrows much if, say, it had occurred earlier in my recuperation, or if this had been one of those weekends for doing absolutely nothing, but as it turns out, I started to accept work this past week, and I actually had work on my plate that I could/should be doing.

Cheers...

[velvet-granat.livejournal.com]

Going by what a friend was saying (the lady in question recently undergone a treatment + surgery for breast cancer), the treatment can really take it out of one. Fatigue, lots of naps and long night sleeps is normal... its the body's way of trying to heal. She said there was no point in fighting it, it's easier to just take the time to rest, however annoying it may be.

Good to hear you are more or less recovered from the bypass!