As I\u2019ve noted before, my mom has cancer again. Breast cancer some time ago. That was a major surgery and lots of chemo. A couple bouts of skin cancer that were much more easily removed and recovered from. And the blood cancer she is fighting now. Or rather the top shelf still in-testing drug cocktail is designed to fight. Now there is a couple interesting side effects that mom has noticed. She\u2019s gone to bed around 11 and woken up around 5 for decades. Now she wakes up to the alarm at 7. And she normally takes a nap or two during the day. She\u2019s also losing weight. She\u2019s burning off around 5 pounds a month. See the cancer drugs kill the cancer in her blood, and then her body has to filter the dead stuff out of her blood. That takes a lot of energy, so she sleeps longer and is losing a bit of weight each month. \u201cLife finds a way.\u201d The things you learn from Jurassic Park. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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