the flush

Weight: 234 lbs

I am six weeks out today, so they flushed my port. Since I am seeing my regular doc for a checkup next week, I asked them to do the blood work for that appointment today to save me an unnecessary stick next week. The nurse was positive about my neuropathy saying that it will completely go away. I love that talk.  It seems to have improved slightly. Second time on the treadmill this morning in 4 days. Did a mile and a quarter today. Lifted and stretched a couple days back. Tentative schedule: treadmill walk one day; next day lifts and stretches; third day off; then repeat. We'll see how that works. Those fast-twitch, leg muscles need the 24-48 hours to build.

Weight puts me a couple pounds above when we started all of this, but that follows a great deal of indulgence in restaurants over three weeks in AZ. Portion sizes reduced now. However, tapering back on one glass of wine with dinner or prior to dinner every day. What an exquisite indulgence!

Still fatigued, but maybe workouts are contributing. More often than not napping in the afternoon for an hour and sometimes 30-40 min after breakfast in the morning. I remember when I was 40 and first started swimming. I worked myself up to one mile non-stop, free-style per outing, three outings per week. My best times were usually about 38 minutes for the mile, about twice as long as the good guys in the pool. But, it took about three months to work up to this, and I napped frequently as my body responded to the extra demands on it during that period. Hopefully, that is what is happening now.

As to the one episode of sweating at night. We'll write that off as a false positive, probably triggered by too much sugar after dinner that night, or too much heat in the house.  Whatever...