To Infinity and below
The aim of treating anxiety I suppose is to reduce the number of things to worry about from infinity to some finite number. A very large finite number, obviously.
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cancer
Minths? Moths?
Need a name for the new units of time for the 3-monthly distance between oncology review sessions. Obviously much shorter than regular months, roughly say a quarter of a month.
Ask any dancer
You don\’t battle with cancer but arm wrestle. The locked arms first one way, then the other, higher and lower, up and down, swaying like a dance.
Time dilation
\”Wind chill factor\” is a recognition that wind makes it seem colder than the actual air temperature. We need an \”Age Acceleration Factor\” to account for the fact that you feel older than you are. So Apparent Age = True age + number of chemotherapy courses (expressed as years) + number of surgical operations (\”years\”)
Big fleas
So, you can get anxious about not being anxious, and you could get anxious that you are not being anxious enough about not being anxious, and then …. but that way madness lies.
Menu
Yes, ready to order, I\’ll have Chemo for main course, oh, and with a dish of nasty little effects on the side please.
Much ado
To quote from William Shakespeare (what, I contradict myself about quoting from wise people? Very well, then I contradict myself): In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff \’tis made of, whereof
Stepwise
The tough thing about blogging is that every post has to be as good or better than the last. Just as in tightrope walking where every step has to be sure, so does every post. True in most, well, all really, artistic endeavours – only as good as your last film, last novel, last symphony etc.
Goldilocks zone
Not so many symptoms that you go into a panic attack wondering if your body is about to explode; not so few symptoms that you get anxious wondering if some previously unknown syndrome, about to be named after you, is shielding the symptoms until they can leap out at a stage too late for treatment.