My bent has always been
toward the textual, but I’m feeling more visual lately, and it’s just too damn
bad that I’m not a sculptor, or painter, or photographer, or pole dancer. I
will dabble in design, and sometimes stumble on a successful capture, but in my
next life, I’m going for out-loud, stand-up comedy.
That may not work either,
because I love improvisation, but I need to rehearse it a few times. At least
with the printed word, it takes heckling longer to get here.
This pic is today’s attempted
artsy-fartsy improv, well-rehearsed. And, sometimes, at least for me, a picture’s
worth a single word.
My cancer “script,” as
written by the Docs, has been fairly well-cued up: We won’t know the net effect
of all these daily frontal assaults (and a few reconnoiters and flanking
maneuvers) until we re-run the diagnostics in a few weeks, but so far they’ve
been spot-on with the side effects:
The skin burn, the pain, the
nausea, the anxiety, the dry mouth, the hard swallowing, the dinosaur bowels,
and now, the fatigue.
It comes quickly (no, in
this case “quick fatigue” is not oxymoronic), and though it’s short-lived, it
does freeze my frames with little warning. It’s almost narcoleptic. This can be
a problem if I’m doing something requiring my full and attentive attention.
(You may write your own joke here).
“Sudden sleep” is one way
it’s described, and because I’m always aspiring to be a creature of balance, I
guess I’m also suffering from sluggish insomnia.
I’m at the edge of one now.
It’s after midnight, and again I’m giving you yesterday today. I’ll leave you with
this photo. I took this just exiting the elevator on the radiation floor. It
was rushed and presents here with its blurring clarity intact.
Whenever I see this sign
these days, I exhale a lifetime of dumb choices, arrested, we can hope, in
time.
More as we go, El
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