I haven’t had a bone marrow transplant myself, but I’ve spent a lot of time facing major fatigue in both of my cancer experiences and even prior to that.

Here’s a tip I thought I might share.
One thing I did was laughter therapy. It helped me a lot to laugh when I was feeling run down. Something happens when you laugh to revitalize you. Those magical little chemicals in your body called endorphins have this tricky way of making you think you have more energy.

For me, I would watch episodes of Seinfeld and I Love Lucy– it would have to be something that I knew had an almost certain track record of regularly make me laugh. Or I would say if there’s someone in your life who is a pretty good comedian…tell em straight up “I need a laugh right now”. I was pretty good at asking people to do that for me.

Now I’m pretty good at making people laugh…so there’s a return on that investment

Hang in there, Alex.

Leah Shearer
TLC Program Coordinator
Rochester, NY