My eye is twitching. Constantly. Since September. It’s November now.
It’s pretty omnipresent and frustrating. At the beginning I researched everything it could be and all the possible contributing factors. It comes down to this: maybe it’s chemo recovery. Maybe it’s Bell’s palsy recovery. Maybe it’s my body’s way of dealing with stress. Maybe, maybe maybe.
It sort of doesn’t matter. It is what it is.
And yes, I’m taking ALL THE SUPPLEMENTS.
It’s the same story with my hip/glute pain, my joint pain, and my crazy brittle fingernails. And the fatigue. And the neuropathy in my left foot. And the acute/ exaggerated symptoms that come with chemically-induced menopause. And the side effects from my aromatase inhibitors (mainly more joint pain). Blah, blah, blah. So annoying, and so very boring to talk about.
Normally I’m in the “power through it” mindset. I’m lucky to be NED (no evidence of disease) after breast cancer and happy to be focused on staying in remission. And I dont make much time or space in regular life to think about how much havoc cancer has wreaked on my body.
But I’m home in Buffalo this week, visiting my mom. It’s given me a few days to pause again. And im realizing that I need to feel some compassion for myself in this phase. It does suck. And yet I know I’ll figure it out. I always do. [wink]
Nope, that wasn’t a wink. Just an eye twitch. :-)
At the AKG Gallery in Buffalo with my mother.