{"id":142,"date":"2008-10-07T20:25:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T03:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2008-10-07T20:25:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T03:25:59","slug":"forgetting-that-i-am-forgetting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Forgetting that I am Forgetting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m kind of rough.\u00c2\u00a0 back up to full dose again, post immunosupression.\u00c2\u00a0 been experiencing a whole lot of side effects.\u00c2\u00a0 lots of physical discomfort.\u00c2\u00a0 (that&#8217;s a nice euphemism.)<\/p>\n<p>O told me today that i have been forgetting things.\u00c2\u00a0 as in, she tells me things, or i do things, and then don&#8217;t realize that i have already been told this, and ask about it.\u00c2\u00a0 or don&#8217;t realize that i have already done something. (or more likely: not done something.) i mean, i knew before i was forgetting things.\u00c2\u00a0 but now, it seems that i am forgetting things and *not* realizing it.\u00c2\u00a0 this has been freaking me out today.<\/p>\n<p>also, lots of pinprick sensations.\u00c2\u00a0 the heat rash + hot flash thing.\u00c2\u00a0 in the middle of public i just want to pull off all of my clothes and scratch frantically at my skin.\u00c2\u00a0 sometimes i pull off all of my outerlayers, and scratch at my skin under my undershirt.\u00c2\u00a0 only in new york, right?<\/p>\n<p>actually i wish i was (sort of) in china.\u00c2\u00a0 i mean, it would be much hotter there, but in the summer the men in china all pull their shirts up over their bellies.\u00c2\u00a0 i think that is the most brilliant move.\u00c2\u00a0 all these old men with formal slacks, leather shoes, pulling their shirts up over their bellies.\u00c2\u00a0 their nipples stay covered!\u00c2\u00a0 but they get some cooling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m kind of rough.\u00c2\u00a0 back up to full dose again, post immunosupression.\u00c2\u00a0 been experiencing a whole lot of side effects.\u00c2\u00a0 lots of physical discomfort.\u00c2\u00a0 (that&#8217;s a nice euphemism.) O told me today that i have been forgetting things.\u00c2\u00a0 as in, she tells me things, or i do things, and then don&#8217;t realize that i have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Forgetting that I am Forgetting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,5,13],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-interferon","tag-memory","tag-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}