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Wrapping up Week #3

Image: Micah and me, chemo #3

Here are some other updates from this week . . . 

  • Losing a sense of taste has made eating just a functional chore. I’m jotting down everything I eat everyday because if I don’t, I don’t really have any motivation to do it. 
  • Pain management has become a thing. For the last couple of days I’ve just cycled through Tylenol and Ibuprofin. I started a nerve blocking med called Gabapentin. My doctor things in the last couple of weeks I’ll have to shift to something stronger.
  • My sleep is all kinds of off. No one mentioned this side effect, but it’s real.
  • Micah took me to my weekly chemo appointment yesterday, and it was so much fun. He makes me laugh so hard. My parents were so kind to bring up lunch and doughnuts to us. Micah and I got to play a round of Dominion (which we used to play a lot years ago and had to relearn). It looks really complicated, but it’s more fun than all of that.
  • I’m starting to look at academic writing this week, lightly, in order to plan out some publishing or conference proposals I might want to send out. It’s kind of time for a pviot for me, and I have a couple of couple of book ideas and collaborative project ideas I’d like to put some thought into.
  • I’m halfway through Emmanual Carrere’s memoir Yoga (covered in another post in more detail here). But Eden said she’d read it with me and her copy is on the way, so I’m pausing on that one about half way through. I’m going to pick back up with the (very dry, but still interesting) Free and Equal: A Manifesto for a Just Society by Daniel Chandler applying the political science work of John Rawls to our contemporary moment. I’m looking forward to starting Nicholas Carr’s book Superbloom soon!
  • I’m going on short walks when I can.
  • My ride schedule this week has been awesome. I’ve gotten to see my friends Ana (who lives in a modified church up the block that’s being used partially as an art and music space) and Amy. I’ll be seeing Micah and then Hbomb (Heather) today for a ride home from Winship. I am super appreciative of everyone’s punctuality and grace navigating Atlanta traffic for me.
  • My birthday is Friday! I’ve already been delivered some awesome gifts: a bookshelf I really wanted (thank you Mom, Dad, and Jenn) and some amazing dinosaur-shaped ice trays that showed up mysteriously the other day. Someone knows how much I like kid-throwback gifts 🙂

I look forward to writing for y’all who are reading along. I like the email comments that people send back sometimes (sorry that I’m not always on top of responding to those yet). Feel free to put comments on these posts if you like, but email works well too. Sending out happy and healthy thoughts across the wires to all of you out here standing up for liberation, sticking to facts, and building strong and diverse communities.

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