Slump

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Slump periods suck. These are the periods of time when the days blur into one big smudge on your brain and you begin to slip into mopeosis (mope-ee-osis; the state of being mopey; experiencing a light case of mental and/or physical paralysis). You don’t know you’re in a slump period until a few weeks of the slump have come to pass. The slump happens when all is calm and you’ve finally got your brain sunny side up. Then, little by little, things start sizzling. You turn down the burners to slow the process. But, the damn thing starts overcooking anyway because the gas burner beneath it is just too big for the pan.

We are in a slump period right now. This one has been going for about three and a half months now.

Yesterday was my mom’s last day of a three week radiation treatment. She earned a "Certificate of Completion" from the clinic, her second one. It’s a nice gesture on their part, I suppose. Today, Mom started a new treatment of chemo. This one only requires her to go in once every three weeks for the infusion. Which is really nice. Much better than once a week, or in the case of radiation, every day. The bad thing about getting chemo once a week is not so much the time it eats up that day but the ripple effect it has. A steroid is generally administered with the chemo so the patient doesn’t get completely wiped out the day of. So, the rest of chemo day and the following day are up, up, up! But, the next two to three days are down, down, down. Once the steroid wears off, the body just crashes. So, chemo every week sucks. Half the week is pretty good, the other half is just lost.