{"id":209,"date":"2006-12-08T22:56:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-09T03:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/the-cancer-battle\/index\/more-chemo-and-more-exercise\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T16:48:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T21:48:41","slug":"more-chemo-and-more-exercise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/more-chemo-and-more-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"More chemo and more exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 29<\/p>\n<p>Went on a nice <a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/sleigh-ride\/\">sleigh ride<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>November 30-December 3<\/p>\n<p>Ran 2 miles Friday<br \/>\nRan 4 miles Saturday<br \/>\nRan 2 miles Sunday<\/p>\n<p>Something like that, anyway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>December 4<\/p>\n<p>Back for more chemo fun.  Andrea hung with me again, we watched Woody Allen be a total goofball jackass in &#8220;Take the Money and Run&#8221;.  An inspiration for us all for generations to come.  :>  The nurse had a few good tips, including checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drweil.com\">Dr. Weil online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>December 7<\/p>\n<p>Thursday after chemo seems to be the low point.  Not feeling so great.  Still managed to push hard on the elliptical (thingee?) for close to an hour, got a good sweat going while watching the first fifteen minutes of &#8220;The Puffy Chair&#8221; (it failed our mandatory 15-minute-into-the-movie assessment, sorry NetFlix, better luck next film) and a couple episodes of 20 Good Years (OK, it&#8217;s a sitcom but I still love John and Jeffrey).<\/p>\n<p>December 8<\/p>\n<p>Biked to work today, even though it was in the 20&#8217;s.  Still trying to decide if that was wise&#8230;  :>  My cold-sensitivity side effects were indeed in effect &#8211; hands and feet were tingling in the biting cold wind, and by the time I got to work my feet were numbscicles.  I wasn&#8217;t sure if they would thaw out&#8230; but they did.  The gear I have is currently NOT wind-proof, which is NOT good.  For the ride home, I scrounged up 4 pair of socks and rubber gloves, with the help of one of the other two bike commuters (thanks Ricardo!), it definitely helped.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of annoyed that I still feel nauseous today, I was hoping to really kick this stuff out with my exercising.  Exercise makes me feel better while I&#8217;m doing it, but I&#8217;m finding that it isn&#8217;t necessarily a nausea &#8220;cure&#8221;.  Which is too bad, because it&#8217;s a lot cheaper than Zofran, which is an absolutely ridiculous $500 for a four-day supply (and it is certainly far from a surefire cure, too).  How do insurance companies put up with that?  A Persian herbal remedy from Mehdi is lemons &#8211; lots of them &#8211; he says the stomach will regulate the extra acid no matter how many you eat, and I tend to agree, after seeing the acid that the stomach is capable of cranking out (thanks to my NG tube).  I ate a whole lemon and it did feel a bit better for a while.  Feeling a bit better every day now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/index\/the-cure-for-nausea-is-exercise\/\">Previous<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/\">Home<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/index\/the-good-week\/\"> Next <\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 29 Went on a nice sleigh ride. November 30-December 3 Ran 2 miles Friday Ran 4 miles Saturday Ran 2 miles Sunday Something like that, anyway&#8230; December 4 Back for more chemo fun. Andrea hung with me again, we watched Woody Allen be a total goofball jackass in &#8220;Take the Money and Run&#8221;. An &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/more-chemo-and-more-exercise\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More chemo and more exercise<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":194,"menu_order":13,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9M0Zg-3n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":211,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/big-stories\/the-cancer-battle\/the-good-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":209,"position":0},"title":"The Good Week","author":"m","date":"December 12, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"With a two-week chemo cycle, I pretty much have a bad week then a good week. The good times are here! 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