If any of you have read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland she must defeat the Jabberwocky. It is Lewis Carrol's nonsense that makes sense. Chemotherapy is like the Alice who must defeat the Cancer(the Jabberwocky). The chemo will enter my system and kill so much of me only to save me. In the process I will experience the side effects of battle including but not limited to: flu-like symptoms, eye changes, kidney changes, weight changes, hormone changes, fluid retention, and of course constipation and diarrhea.
It seems like such an attractive combination-hence the Jabberwocky. Nonsense that makes sense. In order to defeat the monster one must understand how the monster works-
At the end of the poem(which I will not include for those of you who do not love poetry) Alice says,
"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas-only I don't know exactly what they are!However, somebody killed something. that's clear, at any rate-"
In conclusion, I must defeat the Jabberwocky.
The Jabberwocky is also from America's Best Dance Crew and they had movement that by itself did not make sense-but in the end it worked.
I love your analogy! I think you should write a book about your experience and keep the title of your blog. I would actually read it :)
ReplyDeleteLove yah, Cathy Wiese