Continued Gut Troubles

I'm starting to worry about whether this chemo is causing some kind of damage to my gut lining that might stay on afterwards..... I feel like a bit of a whiner (after the palpitations & cardio follow up) but I wonder if I might need to follow up on it. I had gone on the BRAT diet a couple of days ago -- and it helped a lot. But I've been so tired, I haven't really exercised. So finally today I went swimming. I did a couple of errands afterwards, picked up Em, took her to Target, got Matthew from school (he has debate after school a couple of days a week) and by the time I got home I was so hungry I had my lunch all planned.......

I had a sandwich of avocado, salmon, tomatoes, pickles and mustard. It was divine..... I had a 2nd one. (Open face sandwiches -- bread is not so much my thing.... plus, I never would have been able to get my mouth around it with another piece of bread on it!) I know it sounds like strange food -- I described it to Matthew and he said "and some mini marshmallows!" I wouldn't eat that, but he's right, it does sound like a kitchen sink sandwich..... However -- I eat like that all the time, and it's not usually a problem! (Especially not those pickles. THey were homemade by these friends of ours and really really nice -- and I don't taste much salt in them, as I do in commercial pickles. I'm going to keep putting cucumbers in there as I use theirs up.......)

Anyway I had been okay (not perfect but okay), but I am not now (couldn't eat dinner.) I bet it was all fine except for the pickes and mustard...... but the thing is, I've been kinda nauseous in the morning (a couple of hours after I get up -- right when I need to eat breakfast!) The pickles and mustard counter the nausea nicely ..... though at the time I actually take an antinausea pill..... which of course makes me sleepy.... which is part of why I haven't been exercising much lately. Bit of a catch 22.....