Suddenly...

I was reflecting about my health recently - yes, I do tend to dwell on it a bit - and I suddenly realised that I no longer feel the need to sleep in the afternoon! That's quite a recent development. For a few years before my diagnosis, if I wasn't working, I would take an afternoon nap which quite often stretched into the early evening. Then, as my health deteriorated, the afternoon nap became something much longer. After surgery, of course, I was tired and post-radiotherapy, sleeping was my favourite pastime. Even in the middle of last year, I was taking the occasional midday snooze. Now, however, I don't feel the need any longer. Why hadn't I noticed?

The moral of this, I suppose, is that the improvement is as subtle, in many ways, as the deterioration so, if you don't get better as quickly as you hoped, it doesn't mean you won't get better.