Good days and bad days

Although my blood test results were 'normal' that might equate to being the 'acceptable average'.  I'm not certain if normal is 'my normal'.  That said, I can only attest to my having good days and bad days.

On good days, I seem to have energy and feel generally 'good'.  I wake early. Have coffee.  Create my 'list' and seem to be able to accomplish any task I begin and am able to finish my 'list' of things to do.  If the sun is out and the air is dry I tend to thrive and all is right with the world.

Conversely, on bad days I can't seem to get into gear or get out of my own way.  I feel lethargic, have low energy levels and talk myself out of doing or delaying any task unless it's critical or urgent. I feel out of sorts and tend to take many cat naps while channel surfing. On rainy days, this is exacerbated. I may have a day or two of these 'bad' days in a row and apparently for no known reason begin to feel good. I'm still trying to figure my new bio-rhythms and determine what the triggers are for feeling good and feeling bad.

Given I'm at the end of my first chemo cycle, I've noted lingering symptoms/side effects including: muscle spasms (charlie horse) which seems to be somewhat better since I've begun eating a banana a day; numbness in my thumb and forefinger; numbness in the balls of my feet (although diminishing); soreness in the area where the chemo was delivered (vein) by IV; occasional but ongoing sniffles; thrush of the throat (mitigated with baking soda and water rinse).  In addition I've noted some new issues that may be a side effect: split skin in my oral cavity (not visible but noticeable when I have something acidic like vinegar); acne (in the strangest places).

I am making the most of my good and bad days though.  I have picked up my guitar a few times (first time since February).  I lost my callouses, so I'm driven to get those back. I researched home network storage (NAS) and will be setting that up so I can cancel some of my cloud storage for pay services. When energy is low, I binge watch series on Netflix or On Demand.  I'm currently on season two of Game of Thrones. [I highly recommend this series if you haven't seen it.]

Day one of my retirement starts a week from today - July 1.  Wow!