Energy

I still can't believe how much energy I seem to have now! Admittedly, I do still get quite tired by late in the day, but I'm no longer feeling the need to sleep in the afternoon (after several years of finding it very hard to keep going after around 14:00) and I'm getting up and dressed in the morning in a way that never used to happen! Even when I was working full time, if I was able to work at home rather than go to meetings, I would sit at my computer in my night clothes until lunchtime because I simply didn't have the energy to get dressed.

This morning, by 09:00, I had fed my dogs, fed the birds in the garden, tidied the garden up, put out my own rubbish bins for collection and those belonging to two sets of neighbours, attended to the next door cats' needs while their owners are away, moved furniture around my own house so that a delivery can be taken upstairs later this morning, sorted through a mountain of surplus bedding and towels, collected and inherited but scarcely used, to decide what to take to the local charity shop and bagged them up and put them into my car, ready for transport once the charity shop opens (four 75 litre bags filled). Now, that amount of activity may be normal for the majority of the population; for me, however, it is a revelation! For years, and particularly over the last two or three years, it would have taken me several days to do all that - and I would have had to have planned ahead.

So, life after radiotherapy has its advantages. I would have preferred not to have needed it - or surgery - but it really has made a huge difference to my life in return for a little inconvenience at the time.