[Cancer, Writing]
[cancer|writing] This is my brain on chemo
Wrote for about 90 minutes today. Which is to say, editorial discussion with
Had a discussion with Herself on the way home from the airport concerning my current mental deficiencies, courtesy of chemotherapy. Somewhat to my surprise, my reasoning ability seems as strong as ever, or nearly so, as does my creativity. My short-term memory is sucking wind, as is my longer term memory for things which aren’t usually of immediate importance to me — ie, retrieval of obscure details. So I forget to do stuff, and I can’t remember a lot of things that are normally at my mental fingertips.
(And here writing this, I just said to
Ok, if this pattern holds, I’ll take it. I can make a lot of notes, and look stuff up that I would normally already know. It’s making me a bit crazy, but not nearly so crazy as simply being unable to think would do.
Posted: 6:31 pm Wed January 20 2010 |
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Richard Burton
January 20th, 2010 at 9:26 pmhang in there Jay. I finished chemo 14 weeks ago(bladder cancer that metastasized from colon cancer i had 16 years ago, a record). My short and long term memory returned shortly after i was able to play Bridge again. You have to exercise your mind also. i love your books, keep them coming