Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35065776-20180816043457

Seriously - this has become a problem, and here's why. Not for sympathy, but to try and keep from breaking my phone (it's only 6 months old).

I have cancer and am doing chemo every second week (lots of people have it, so I don't really consider it anything 'special'); basically, on Tuesday (next session is 8/21) I go to the center and get treatment, then they attach a small pump to me that I carry around for 48 hours while it infuses some chemicals into my system. Then I go back Thursday afternoon and get it removed, and that's it for the next 11 days.

When I get my treatment on Tuesday they give me steroids to help prevent nausea and 'irregularity' (I'll try not to be too coarse). The steroids wear off after about 2 - 3 days, so either Friday or Saturday I mostly sleep because of the crash.

Usually that super fatigue only lasts 1 day, maybe 2 at the most (it lasted longer when I first started this treatment) and for the next few days I'm fine. But then the chemicals have their say, and around Monday night and Tuesday if I don't drink a LOT of fluids I get 'irregular' to the point where if I'm not careful I could end up in the hospital with an IV for fluids. Early on, before I figured out how to deal with it, I wore a path from my computer to the bathroom.

Well, all the cumulative side effects, pills, etc. tend to combine to reduce my stamina and while I don't feel it, if I sit down I can fall asleep at the drop of a hat. And when I sit I try to play, so I can basically fall asleep several times in the course of a 15-minute stretch. And sometimes I don't wake up in time (usually for example if I start a room, I will fall asleep right away and wake up around the 2:30 - 2:15 mark - enough time to still finish) I won't catch my phone slipping from my hand and it can hit the floor. On nice days I sit on the breezeway, and that has a slate floor, so that is bad.

Finally - to my question! :-D (trust me - I am ALWAYS this long-winded)  The device I use is a Samsung Android phone - a Galaxy J7 to be precise. Does anybody know of any sort of device I can 'mount' it on with something like a strap on the back to slip my hand through, so I can basically hold onto it without actually gripping it? It would also help my fingers, since the way I hold it can make them tired and sore sometimes. I'm not even sure what to call something like that in order to start a google search.


 * regarding my long-windedness;  I am a huge history buff and would always answer my kids' homework questions with helpful background info to put things in perspective - because, well, we grown-ups know that can help us understand the answer. One year for my birthday my kids got me a t-shirt that said "Got insomnia? Ask me a history question." 