Well, I know why I felt so sick

Yesterday was not a good day. I had a bad headache on Sunday and went to bed with it. I took some percocet hoping it would make it go away, but all it did was help me fall asleep. It did nothing for the headache. I was still feeling sick and thirsty and had a bad headache throughout the night. I was really worried because I've never had a pounding headache like that all night before. My inlaws were able to pick up the girls at 8am and I stayed in bed and slept all morning. My mom came and took care of me in the afternoon but stupid me couldn't figure out what was wrong. I called the doctor twice and they said if I wasn't better that I should come in for IV fluids. I didn't want that at all.

It didn't hit me til M emailed me and said that after chemo I should drink and drink and drink. Once the chemo is in me, I need to drink it out. It flushes out the poison and makes you not feel so sick. I have barely drunk anything lately because I felt so sick. Well, that was the chemo sticking around in my system since I wasn't drinking it out. Duh, duh, duh. So Mom brings me soup and that tasted so good and I kept eating a little bit. I felt great almost immediately. I went to Walmart with her to get some bottled water and started to not feel so good. Too much too soon. So after Mom left, I went back to bed and slept some more. When I got up again, I had toast and a yogurt smoothie. I still felt a little sick, but not like before and my headache was mostly gone.

I swear that chemo has robbed my brain of intelligence. I should have known that the headache and sick feeling was because I was dehydrated. But it never occured to me that that was the problem. Just thinking of the cancer center makes me ill so I think that motivated me the most to drink and eat. I didn't want to go somewhere that reminds me of being sick or nauseated. Plus it costs money to go in and get IV fluids. I should NOT go in for something as silly as needing IV fluids when I could do that at home.

I feel like my brain isn't working at full function today. So if this entry is odd or doesn't make sense, I blame it on chemo brain. lol