{"id":236,"date":"2009-02-19T18:28:37","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T01:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2009-02-19T18:28:37","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T01:28:37","slug":"today-i-feel-like-i-have-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"Today I feel like I have cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are days I feel like I don&#8217;t have cancer.  And other days where I definitely feel like I am under treatment.  Emotionally and physically exhausted.  Fatigued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/17\/the-many-shades-of-cancer-fatigue\/\">Dana Jennings has a nice post about all the kinds of fatigue<\/a> that come with treatment.  I feel like I&#8217;ve been through most of these.  And today, has been a heavy one.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut the weariness caused by prostate cancer isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a constant. It fluctuates from week to week, day to day, even hour to hour. In this nano-age of super-instant gratification, we have lost sense of organic time. Prostate cancer, though, has planted me more firmly in each moment. One of the things that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve learned, as I try to pay attention, is that cancer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s paint box includes many shades of fatigue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are days I feel like I don&#8217;t have cancer. And other days where I definitely feel like I am under treatment. Emotionally and physically exhausted. Fatigued. Dana Jennings has a nice post about all the kinds of fatigue that come with treatment. I feel like I&#8217;ve been through most of these. And today, has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=236\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today I feel like I have cancer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,26,25,13],"class_list":["post-236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-appetite","tag-comfort","tag-fatigue","tag-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}