Listen to the Little Voice
Chemo on Monday was a hard day - for me. The room was packed with people who could not get treatment on Thursday and Friday due to the holidays. Many of the caregivers sat around tables doing puzzles, chatting, reading. I was fortunate to have a chair to sit beside Joe but all 50 recliners were filled with people receiving treatment. Most of the time the atmosphere is quiet some chatting with your neighbors about what disease you have and where are you in your treatment but almost always it's a subdued time. Not on Monday. Monday with so many people in the room the noise was sometimes at a party level. Monday I paid way too much attention to patients as they came in and settled down. For some reason we could hear everyone talking about their holiday's and how they didn't throw up and only had to take a couple of naps. My ears were trying to reject these conversations - I don't like to know that part of this demon. One couple at the end of our row, married over