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I’ve told a few people this story but thought it was amusing (and short!) enough to write down. While I was in the hospital we figured out that one medication, Lorazepam, that I’d been taking at night to help me sleep also helps a lot with my nausea, so I ended up taking it during the day last time the week after chemo, and will again this week. However, while I knew that it was useful for anxiety, sleeplessness, and also nausea, I didn’t know that it could also give you mild amnesia.
So I happily took it, thrilled that the combo of my reduced
chemo dose plus the Lorazepam helped me feel better. I also went to work, and sat through 4 hours
of storyboard reviews on Wed and again on Thurs. It turns out that this was an ineffective
combination.
On Monday I went back to work and started talking to people
on my team about the storyboard reviews, but I quickly realized that I
remembered the room we were sitting in, and remembered starting a question and
having no idea where to go from there, but I couldn’t remember anything else we’d
discussed AT ALL.
My friend Alyssum pointed out that I was now completely
ready to join the storyline of a Soap Opera with my handy amnesia – all I need
is an evil twin, or a daughter I didn’t know I had, or to marry my husband’s
brother by mistake. I’m looking forward
to figuring out what I forget this next week.
Please keep me posted!
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