December 07, 2004

Everything seems so hard after chemo. I just can’t keep up with the basics. I don’t quite get the kids to school on time. I’m not able to find time to help them home school. I run around and still we arrive late to their after-school practice. I am leaving on time and suddenly there is a poop to clean up and I leave my daughter waiting, the last one in the rain. I am dragging. I am slow but am moving as fast as I can with poisonous platimunm coursing through my veins, sludging my muscles, fogging my brain, grating against my nerves. I have no choice but to move even slower.

John Shifflette