9. Fatigue: The Subtle Energy Drain
You’re no stranger to the ebb and flow of energy levels. Yet, with SCC, it’s like someone pulled the plug on your vitality reservoir. You feel it seeping away, not in dramatic swoops but in stealthy dribbles. Each day becomes a loom of interwoven exhaustion strands, making even routine tasks feel Herculean.
Your sleep patterns start turning chaotic. Despite full nights of rest, you wake up feeling as if you’ve run a marathon. The bed holds you captive, and the idea of facing another day seems almost intolerable. No, it’s not laziness; it’s something that saps you from the inside, like a leech that you can’t find or remove.
At this point, fatigue becomes more than just a symptom; it turns into a lifestyle. You abandon projects halfway and miss out on social events, not by choice but by physical incapability. A thick fog rolls into your cognitive functions, causing a kind of mental slowdown. Numbers don’t add up as quickly, and even words sometimes escape you.
What happens here isn’t merely physical; it’s a chaotic internal dialogue between your body and SCC. Imagine your cells like foot soldiers in a never-ending war, with the cancer cells winning battles here and there, causing fatigue as a byproduct. The continual conflict drains resources, like a country focused solely on defense, leaving little energy for the everyday demands of life. (9)
