Mark Jeter continues to share with us his experience being treated for stomach cancer.
The Baltimore native recently finished his first week of chemotherapy and has been at home recovering.
He said the chemotherapy wore him out more than he expected. Typing a simple e-mail quickly tired him out. He can't use an electric shaver while getting treatment so looks like a "bear." But Jeter said he doesn't mind too much because the chemo will probably eventually result in him losing his hair. The pain fom chemo was also more than he could take one night.
Here he describes it in his own words:
Today I went for a shot and I feel better. Keep in mind I don't like any pain at all. Call it what you want but I'm just keeping it real: NO PAIN FOR ME.
The shot was to help me get my white blood cell count back up. The pain I have because the blood count is down either makes my bones ache or just fatigues me beyond what you can image.
Let me try to tell how I felt the first day and second day after getting out of the hospital. Day one you feel verrrrrry tired and your body is spinning from head to toe. You are taking so much medicine to fix one thing after the other. You want to eat but can only eat a little bit of this or two bites of that. Sometimes you will have a metal taste in your mouth but I have only had that once.
On day two you start feeling a lot better, but what I have noticed is since getting the shot to increase my white blood cell count is there is a lot of pain. I struggle to do simple things like hold my head up long enough to write this message to you. Feeling much better, just tired.
I also would like to say something to all the many people that prayed for me and offered to help in so many ways. I also appreciate the people who made the phone calls even though most of the time I am too tired to talk. Feeling the support is beyond words. Thank you all for helping me get through this time. I know that GOD is making this happen for a reason. Thank you GOD for all that you have done and are about to do.