Cycle 4, Day 3 Summary

Tired and crappy feeling all day? Check

Painful neuropathy? Check

Gastro-intestinal distress? Check

Weird jaw pain when I eat? Check

But the key feature of Cycle 4, Day 3? A horrible metallic taste in my mouth that wont't go away. A friend/co-worker suggested I buy a bag of hard candy to suck on throughout the day, and that did in fact help. Of course it also led to the subsequent problem that it now feels like I've worn a hole through the roof of my mouth. Oops. And then there's the question of what does it mean when the bag of sugar free Jolly Ranchers I bought includes the warning that this is "not a low calorie food," as well as nutritional information letting me know that four of the little suckers contain fifteen grams of "sugar alcohols." This may or may not have something to do with the fact that my blood sugars are way higher than they ought to be and won't come down. 

But I'm too tired to care about it all that much, and it doesn't much matter what your mouth tastes like when you're sleeping. 

And a moment of silence for Richard Kiel, who passed away two days ago but who's picture as Jaws was pretty much the only reasonable choice for this post.