Tired Girl

Mary Jo has been feeling the cumulative effects from her cancer treatments lately in the form of being very tired.  She has been getting up later and later each morning.  Yesterday she got up at 3pm.  It has been rare in the last month that she is able to get up before noon.  Often if the weather is nice, Mary Jo will really try to get out of bed by 1pm.  Mary Jo does not complain at all and she does have the luxury of being able to get her rest if she needs it.  Dr Gall tells me not to be concerned as he believes this is a side effect from the cumulative radiation and ongoing Herceptin treatments.  Hopefully this side effect will subside a little more after Mary Jo's final Herceptin treatment on August 2nd marking 52 weeks of biologic chemo.