The day after my birthday, things got really bad. As in I wasn't feeling well at all. I was very very tired. I could barely do anything so I just stayed horizontal the whole day. I was constantly vomiting and spewing out liquid poo all day long.
Not only that, a stomach ulcer developed and I was in pain most of the time. It felt like someone just stuck a dull knife into my stomach and just kept on twisting it for fun. So that weekend, I basically stayed in bed moaning, groaning, and just being baby.
I didn't have an appetite for the life of me. One day, every thing tasted so salty, even though it was seasoned just right, that I couldn't even eat a bite. It was a very miserable week.
It took all of my strength to just make it to my radiation appointment each day. The only consolation was that radiation treatments end on 1/24.
On the last day of my radiation appointment, they gave me my custom-made mask. The radiation oncologist told me that some people smash them up and some people make planters out of them. After asking my friends for thoughts, I decided that I'll make my mask into a succulent planter. Of course, I have a feeling it would take me half a year to even start something like that. I do everything ultra slow now.
On top of the ulcer pain, vomit, diarrhea, and feeling fatigue all the time, I was also very very bloated. During this time, my diarrhea turned pretty serious (gross, I know) like just turning on the water faucet serious. I couldn't eat (no appetite and vomiting all the time) and was losing fluids like crazy with the watery diarrhea. I took some imodium and that basically turned off my stomach and intestine. This made me into a GIANT balloon full of gas. I couldn't fart nor burp so I walked around super bloated and SUPER uncomfortable.
Not only that, I found out that my hemoglobin levels were very low which explained why I was very tired. I requested for a blood transfusion to help with my energy level. On 1/25, I got a unit of blood and felt much better. I also decided that to stop taking imodium and just deal with the diarrhea just to help me with the gas issue.
Not only that, a stomach ulcer developed and I was in pain most of the time. It felt like someone just stuck a dull knife into my stomach and just kept on twisting it for fun. So that weekend, I basically stayed in bed moaning, groaning, and just being baby.
I didn't have an appetite for the life of me. One day, every thing tasted so salty, even though it was seasoned just right, that I couldn't even eat a bite. It was a very miserable week.
It took all of my strength to just make it to my radiation appointment each day. The only consolation was that radiation treatments end on 1/24.
On the last day of my radiation appointment, they gave me my custom-made mask. The radiation oncologist told me that some people smash them up and some people make planters out of them. After asking my friends for thoughts, I decided that I'll make my mask into a succulent planter. Of course, I have a feeling it would take me half a year to even start something like that. I do everything ultra slow now.
On top of the ulcer pain, vomit, diarrhea, and feeling fatigue all the time, I was also very very bloated. During this time, my diarrhea turned pretty serious (gross, I know) like just turning on the water faucet serious. I couldn't eat (no appetite and vomiting all the time) and was losing fluids like crazy with the watery diarrhea. I took some imodium and that basically turned off my stomach and intestine. This made me into a GIANT balloon full of gas. I couldn't fart nor burp so I walked around super bloated and SUPER uncomfortable.
Not only that, I found out that my hemoglobin levels were very low which explained why I was very tired. I requested for a blood transfusion to help with my energy level. On 1/25, I got a unit of blood and felt much better. I also decided that to stop taking imodium and just deal with the diarrhea just to help me with the gas issue.
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