Treatment#2- The marathon begins
A few years ago, I decided to train for a full marathon. I had completed my first 1/2 Ironman triathlon the. year before, and decided this was to be the next goal in my endurance adventures. A marathon is 26.2 miles. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done in my life. Until now. Now I face a different type of marathon- 26 treatments of IV chemotherapy to fight Stage 4 stomach cancer. I knew something was wrong a couple years ago when I got a nasty stomach virus that put me in bed for over a week. I literally remember laying in bed thinking, “Something inside me is changing.” And from that time forward, my GI system was never quite right. The last 2 years have been full of a myriad of doctors, surgeries, and procedures to try and figure out what was causing my inability to eat. Eventually we discovered that I had Pyloric Stenosis. The Pylorus is a muscle that sits between the stomach and the intestines. It is supposed to expand and contract to allow food through, then clos