{"id":68,"date":"2002-06-18T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2002-06-18T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/index.php\/2002\/06\/18\/week-1-has-been-rough\/"},"modified":"2013-11-28T09:08:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T14:08:32","slug":"week-1-has-been-rough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/2002\/06\/18\/week-1-has-been-rough\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 1 has been rough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on cycle 2 for a week now, and I can definitely say that this round has been rougher than last time.  For starters, Saturday morning marked the first day that I was throwing up.  Thankfully, so far it has been the only day as well.  Vivian and I think that I over-did it during the week and stayed up too late on too many nights.  I really need to make sure that I&#8217;m getting all the sleep that I can.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even though the oncologist says that the levels of cytoxan in my system drop to 0 during the 2 week break from the chemo and that there really shouldn&#8217;t be any cumulative effects from cycle to cycle, I really believe that this round has been harder.  I&#8217;ve had stronger feelings of nausea than what I remember during cycle 1.  And this is after I compensated for taking one my anti-nausea medications wrongly during cycle 1!  I know that just sitting in church on Sunday was rougher than I remember it from last time.  Of course, now that I&#8217;ve thrown up a couple of times I may be a bit more nervous about being too far from a bathroom and that may be having an affect.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really report any significant hair loss, however.  I still see some loose hairs from time to time, but there is no real change in my appearance.  I am probably finding every single hair that is there to see, since I&#8217;m now on alert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been on cycle 2 for a week now, and I can definitely say that this round has been rougher than last time. For starters, Saturday morning marked the first day that I was throwing up. Thankfully, so far it has been the only day as well. Vivian and I think that I over-did it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ricks_cancer","tag-ricks-cancer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickandviv.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}