I miss making House jokes whenever you were on narcotics.

Also, I miss your grammar when you were on narcotics.

Really, you were quite interesting at times.

Ah, House. I identified with him.

Grammar?

I'm sure I was interesting, being half-out of my head most of the time.

I have fond memories of making business calls whacked out of my gourd, including once stopping and asking a fellow I luckily knew well, "I'm not making any sense at all, am I." Narcs and massive amounts of coffee. Beautiful combination.

Yes, your grammar changed when you were on drugs.

Actually, the entire tone of your correspondence had a sort of lilting quality. Not clipped as usual.

I wasn't really in the mood to reflect on it at the time, but now I find it quite amusing.

Lilting rather than clipped. Hmmm. That's interesting.

Perhaps the drugs were useful in getting in touch with some inner artist, now thankfully suppressed.

Odd, though in thinking about this. I was moved to find a message board on my cancer, and found lots of people going on about post-treatment depression. I've felt it myself, queer thing, but the best treatment was to get back to work. All those people rambling on almost got me down, so back to work I go.

going through a similar experience myself at present. not the same condition, mind you, but many of the same associated inconveniences.

E is right about the change in grammatic structure and general writing style. there were a few posts that would have been quite amusing had you not been nearly dead while writing them.

"the crappy American aversion to prescribing nice strong painkillers led me to be under medicated in my humble opinion"

Indeed. I'm certain that was the case. I recall quite clearly a spinsterish looking nurse spitefully denying me an extra dose of morphine an hour or so after a surgical drill went through the bone/elbow in my forearm.

Unfortunately for you Col, chemo was not a one-time event but a process.Glad you are still here and kicking though.

I was continually amazed at the bizarre fear that I would become addicted to the meds. I mean, I'm mere months away from possibly dying, without any doubt suffering relatively extensive side effects, including nerve damage, in massive pain....

But nooooo, can't be having the patient get hooked on the narcs.

The US has a bizarre, truly bizarre attitude in this area.

Although the quality of care was excellent and generally the information flow better than outre-mer

I always thought the American system was more generous in prescribing painkillers?

It isn't.

Quite the contrary, for narcs., it's positively Puritan. The Froggies, however, shot me up.

Americans are very generous with antibiotics. Might be what SD was thinking of.

Congrats on the anniversary, though! Damn glad to be keeping you around.