Earlier calls
and emails of well wishes had left me tripping down rabbit holes full of
emotions.
Drifting
way back to beyond memory I was told I was x-rayed twice while in the womb. As
a breech baby I was sitting upright facing forward. In 1950 the workhorse was
the x-ray before being delivered by knife.
In
retrospect a most curious ‘welcome to the world’ but here I am, soooo hopefully
radiation is still my friend (and kind of midwife) and will blast the lung
cancer metastasis to infinity and beyond.
Shampooing
with baby shampoo and washing my face with dove soap makes it hard to get
pumped up, it’s not exactly the locker room image of champions charging the
field. Yet athletes play games, survivors do what it takes to live.
Omen of
omens, arriving at the parking lot the opening strains of “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons came through the radio.
“I'm
waking up, I feel it in my bones
Enough
to make my systems blow
Welcome
to the new age, to the new age”
For
those who know me well, I despise puzzles yet for today's dawn of my second overtime in life, it was “live
as you've never lived before”.
First up
the radiologists aligned my virtual self with my real self before being zapped.
When I heard the phrase I was not sure if I had fallen back to the Woodstock era
or was in casting for an avatar.
As
promised the zapping was absolutely painless and frankly kind of cool with the linear
particle accelerator spinning around me.
We
stopped for a slice of pizza and some retro video table top games at JoJos
Pizza in route home. Aligned and radiated did not improve my game playing. My
daughter totally kicked my ass on games I played long before she was even born.
Patrick Leer
Health Activist:
Caregivingly Yours, MS Caregiver @ http://caregivinglyyours.blogspot.com/
My Lung Cancer Odyssey @ http://lung-cancer-survivor.blogspot.com/
One round down!! Now, do a little mental therapy and imagine all the bad cells being in shock!! Next round, imagine them shrinking!!
ReplyDeleteGlow on, my friend!!
Jackie
Thanks Jackie! Sound advice and I am focused to annihilate those bad guys!
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ReplyDeleteI love your smile, it makes me smile!
Thanks Mel! It's scary as you know but sometimes I just cannot stop finding moments to smile about.
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