Cancer Treatments

My least favorite part of my daily cocktail

    When I was first diagnosed with cancer, I think I was more afraid of the treatments than the actual disease.  Surgery was no picnic, but turned out to be easier than I expected.  Now I am at the end of my first two weeks of chemotherapy and radiation treatments.  So far things have gone well enough.   I don’t ever feel great, but I also have not gotten sick puked, although Wednesday had me closer than I have been in a long time.  The doctors warned me that the worst side effect would be fatigue.  They were not lying. I have never felt so run down in my life.  I get the weekends off from radiation, which is great, but I am still pretty fatigued throughout the day, just not as much as during the week.

     As mentioned, I am also battling this with the ketogenic diet.  So far this has been going well, and tomorrow we are meeting with Miriam Kalamian, a nutrition specialist who focuses on this type of diet, specifically for cancer and other metabolic diseases.  With Miriam’s help I am confident the remaining pieces of info will be in hand to see this diet through.  By the way, I started my morning with a Canadian bacon, onion, spinach and cheese frittata.  That is my kind of diet breakfast!