Drew Wohl

Cancer is very weird.  It messes with your head.  And one of the things that it messes with is the feeling of guilt.  I may have wrote a bit about this before, but sometimes I feel guilty (for lack of a better word) about how I am dealing with this all. I had a bit tougher time this cycle with the #chemotherapy, but it is starting to pass.   I know I was a bit "out of it" for a couple of days.  I know it is frustrating as I am going through those moments.  I know there are times I feel like crying and just want to sleep to make the feeling stop.  It is not that I am sad, that I think I am dying, that I think about how bad the treatment is.  No, it is some kind of "chemo brain" alteration that I can maybe push through.  Just easier to sleep an hour or so and I wake up fine. I know that I am mildly nauseous and need to pop some pills a couple of times during the initial fews days.  And I know I am tired, sometimes sleeping 16 hours al...

#triathlontraining  measurements and metrics are important for training and improvement. For me it has become a big assistance to see “how I am feeling”. There are always going to be good days and bad days when training. But with  #cancer  and  #chemotherapy  getting a bad start to a session or a few bad sessions in a row can trigger a “uh oh, this is cancer rearing up.” And the couple of days had a couple times where SOB cropped up (shortness of breath people 😂). Was on bike trainer today. . Took a look at routes I used before on the trainer and saw one I did for an hour in August. Wanted to see how it would go. Wound up with my third highest Power for 60 minutes since I started and only two Watts short from August. Pretty much same MPH and distance.

This will probably be the last four years ago today post for the year.  And probably will  not mark anniversaries of this nature too many more times.  No, not because I plan of shuffling off this mortal coil at any time in the near future.  But because I think I have hit all the big dates at least once during this last year or so since my first blog post.  A bit more on the mortal coil in a moment.   But four years ago today was the first surgery.  A lot of my abdomen went MIA that day.  The above is part of what was relocated to places outside my body😀The cancer seemed to have grown quickly in a couple of weeks.  And pathology later showed it was in the lymph nodes.  About half.  Not a good thing and in retrospect it did not turn out that well with me being where I am right now. I probably posted this before, but people with my cancer have a five year survival rate of about 10%.  Yup, that means that 90% of people are go...

View this post on Instagram ‪#triathlontraining with #chemotherapy needle in chest pumping chemo. Need to go SLOW so to not overheat when chemo pumping in. 4.5 miles on treadmill in 2 hours. @tmksespn on @yesnetwork made time pass quickly. Plus had @sloan_kettering commercial to remind me about #cancer and where I am treated 😂‬ A post shared by iTri4ACure (@itri4acure) on Feb 5, 2019 at 4:19pm PST