Having cancer is really boring . Do n’t get me wrong ; it ’s also terrifying , stressful , and exhausting . But a lot of the time , it ’s just psyche - numbingly boring . When I got diagnosed a few month ago , I figured I was in for some sort of spaghetti westerly gunfight with my knave cells . In practice , fighting cancer mostly dwell of sit around . You sit and waitress for Dr. ’s appointments . You sit down and wait for your chemotherapy drugs to get mixed up . Then you sit in a lounger and meet the chemo . In term of thrilling action , my fight with Crab ranks slenderly above my heroic teenage duel with the AP alchemy test .
I ’m incredibly fortunate to be find discussion at one of the country ’s top hospital , and easily yet , it ’s only three underpass stop out frommental_flossHQ . The one downside to this amazing place is that the selection of read cloth in the waiting room is pretty weak . The only magazines are ones that get leave behind by previous affected role , which largely results in an eclectic commixture of swap mags . ( I ’m surePaper AgeandNational Guardare both o.k. publications , but they ’re not exactly oecumenical interest titles . )
One of the perk of working for a magazine , though , is that you ineluctably end up with a giant pile of back number in your apartment . So I started rip old copies ofmental_flossoff of my pile at home and leaving one or two on the wait room tabular array when I went in for treatment . Patients and their family members can spend the good part of a day waiting and receiving therapy , so I figured they belike would n’t bear in mind read back issues .
When I went in for chemo on Friday , I see three unlike people take old issues ofmental_flossand smile . If our mag can make things even marginally less grim and tedious for these folks , we ’re delighted to assist .
And if you ’re in a waiting elbow room today and need immediate entertainment , grab a tablet and you candownload the last few outlet gratuitous .
