Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Time distortion

I am a fan of science fiction movies, and love the older ones.   In fact, my online handle, klaatu, comes from the 1951 science fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still starring Patricia Neal and Michael Rennie as the alien Klaatu, aka, Mr. Carpenter.    Here is Klaatu with his pet robot Gort and a stylish spaceship (from wikipedia.org):
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What does my affinity for science fiction have to do with my cancer?    I have noticed something about the way time passes since my diagnosis that I have only seen in science fiction movies and TV.    My days all seem to pass at normal intervals.   24 hours as they should be.   But the weeks somehow have had months inserted!   Many times I have tried to tell of an event during my journey, indicating  that the event happened days ago, or perhaps last week, only to be told that it happened the day before!   This scenario has been repeated several times.   I think that this could mean that I am losing my sanity, which should be documented, or that this is a phenomenon which others experience during such times.   If you are one of the patients of cancer and have found my little blog, and you have the same feeling of time distortion, you are not alone.   Or I am nuts.   It could go either way honestly.

I have been on prednisone for 5 days since my R-CHOP chemo treatment.  That ends today.   No steroids tomorrow.  I was warned and am fully expecting some sort of crash but have no idea how it will affect me.   We will find out together.   I know that I have been very tired the past couple of days, as if recovering from a cold.   Just washed out.   Nothing to worry about though, I have been through much worse than a ‘washed out’ feeling and came out OK.  We are still winning, and will continue to do so.

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