It's interesting (to me at least) how we (I) try to find the logical roots of Symptom. A bad headache: not enough sleep. Caffeine withdrawal (though not enough time had passed without it to constitute withdrawal). Heredity: O this dizziness is what my mother goes through with her vertigo, dormant for ten years until late this summer. Power of suggestion: the nurse at the oncologist's on Wednesday went through my medications and symptoms. Dizziness and nausea? she asked and I said no. But then here they were, the very next day. And then when it becomes clear (
Mayo Clinic on the internet) that I have "stomach flu" or gastroenteritis, another hunt for etiology: the
River (but we rowed down a cleaner part of it on Wednesday night), lowered immune system because of the new drug
Jakafi--which handily leads into my world view, my
Weltanschauung, which is
Weltschmerz--from every good (new drug) flies a corresponding and ironic bad.
(Cemetery, Basking Ridge, NJ, where we went for my cousin's wedding in late September. Tombstone standing in for the glass the groom stomps on: sadness and broken things in the midst of happiness and beginnings [let's ignore the obvious sexist connection to the breaking of the hymen])
