A learning process

As I head towards the "three week post-radiotherapy" mark, I have learned two things:

1. don't overdo things. I've been feeling so much more energetic that I've spent two days moving furniture around the house. Alone. This is something I would probably not have done a few months ago, but because I've felt well, it seemed like a good idea to start to sort out all those things that needed to be attended to. Maybe doing a little at a time rather than everything at once would, for now, have been wise. At least having aching muscles lets me know that I've been doing something worthwhile, though.
2. re-introduce fruit and vegetables slowly to your diet. As you know, I've really missed being able to eat anything that would provide a significant amount of fibre to my diet. Now that I'm able do so again, I must remember not to get carried away by the excitement. Brown rice - indeed, rice of any sort - seems to a particular culprit (which I keep forgetting). I still need to include some of those 'really bad for you' elements in what I eat for a little longer.
   

So, it seems that even though I feel as though I'm back to "normal" (whatever that is), the healing process is still going on. I was told by someone who's been through the same treatment as me that it had taken them a month or so to recover from radiotherapy fully, so perhaps I shouldn't be trying to hurry things along quite so much. Thinking back to what I was told at the hospital, it was that I would start to feel better after two weeks or so, not that I would be completely better then!

Still, unlike the side-effects during and immediately after the treatment, the two things I've learned this week haven't caused me to alter my life in any way, so I'm obviously well on my way to fitness.