MDS: This Shots Week Stinks

Whoa! this Shots Week has begun poorly. Have been feeling on Tuesday as tired, constipated, achy and cranky as I expect to feel on Friday or Saturday.

Slept for—count 'em!—12 hours Monday night. Woke up just as tired and useless as when I went to bed.

What's that all about?

Naturally, speculation runs high in my tiny brain. Could it be

• that we had an extra week between Shots Weeks due to the bone marrow biopsy, so I was reacting more strongly to the Vidaza?
• that I'd had too much weekend (golf Friday, wedding and poor night's sleep Saturday, no real naps Thursday through Sunday)?
• worst—that the blood counts were down?

Wrong on that last count, anyway. Yesterday's counts:

• Hemoglobin—12.4
• Platelets—118,000.

Well, that's good news, anyway.

So, here it is Wednesday morning, after another long sleep night (9 hours), and the fatigue factor carries on. The old TV ad for Geritol is running through my head: "tired blood."

Tired of tired blood might be more like it. Also, tired of bowels acting like a recalcitrant two year-old. They won't move even though they know that want to, have to, need to.

Pass the prunes.