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I was tired off and on. Like Karenann, I expected that once I finished chemo I'd have more energy. I was told by one of my closest friends who is a pediatric oncology nurse that I would be very tired on rads. Thing is, we're all different and it hits at different times. I was more fatigued than tired. Some of that was having to get up so early every morning -- I was on the train downtown to the hospital by 7:01 every morning, getting up around 5:30 a.m. So by the middle of the afternoon I was tired. Then it just becomes a cumulative thing -- the early hours, keeping to a fairly "normal" day and the accumulation of the radiation in the body. I finished rads at the beginning of April and I'm still fatigued. Some days are much better than others -- I find the weather can drag me down, whatever other responsibilities I have in a given week and if I'm pushing myself too hard. It takes awhile for the body to repair itself and to my thinking, the fatigue is the body's way of saying "hello, you really did a number on me, and I'm still putting the pieces back together." There are days I call myself Humpty Dumpty...but my story has a happier ending than that egg!
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