This SUUUUUCKS!
Obviously. But why? Let's bring you up to speed.
Days 1-5 are a god damn bitch! average 9 hour days getting 2-3 chemicals and a whole lot of hydration to balance your radioactive body out!
Symptoms include but are not limited to:
- The absolute worst heart burn and acid reflux I have ever experienced.
- Hiccups rivaled only by the fury of satan's rear end.
- Nausea fueled by the wuthering fury of 10 thousand hangovers
- Energy levels so low, you'll find more movement in the used toilet paper stuck on the bottom of someone's shoe
- Neuropathy of the extremities, like when your arm falls asleep BUT FOREVER
- A bizarre combination of constipated diarrhea
- The most out of tune symphony of ringing of both ears
- Your brain feels wrapped in bubble wrap
- Everything is perfectly place somewhere between here and there
- Sounds seem to arrive to your ears as if under water
- Everything smells like shit
- Everything tastes like shit
- and my absolute favorite: the screaming voice doing its best to convince you you will never get through this.
All this goes on and on and on. But you get up every morning at 6:30 am (not by choice really... the body does what it does) and you open the curtains, you suit up, and you either go for a mile run, or you walk that god damn mile, but either way, you get your ass out of bed, because if you're gonna live a whole day under the mercy of sickness, then you might as well be damn sure that the first thing you do is under YOUR circumstances.
Day 6 is a breeze! Gives you all the hope in the world and you think, "Psh! What a jip! I thought this would be hard!!" Then Day 7 happens.
Day 7 has been the single most difficult day of my entire existance. From the moment I woke up first thing in the morning to the moment I went to sleep at night, I lived all of the above symptoms every second. I'd really rather not even think about it.
Day 8 is back at the infusion clinic for another one of radioactive man's redbull. A low blood pressure reading explains why death is the only thing I'm feeling for breakfast. But the day goes without much of a tiff!