Cancer 241

You know how Star Trek has changed the world? Without star Trek we wouldn’t have phasers I know, they are quite big at the moment but we are getting there), we wouldn’t have mobile phones, and we wouldn’t have doors that open automatically as a person approaches. I still don’t really get the latter though I do understand how they work. I think my brain refuses to allow them out of science fiction mode. The only problem is they don’t go fwish as they open, but I am sure we will get there. I have realised that the feeling you get during chemotherapy is the feeling you would get, had we invented beaming up/down, if your particles, on reorgansing as you land on an unknown planet with the unknown character you know will get killed by aliens (it is so predictable), didn’t quite reorganise properly. Instead, the cells are all slightly off centre, mis-matched, unconnected where they should be connected, connected where they should be disconnected (I don’t know the exact details as I don;t believe beaming up/down as yet been invented).

Such an experience would make your whole body unwell, disconnected, nauseous, slightly out of the universe, uncomfortable – see, I still can’t describe it. Perhaps I have a medical breakthrough here as important as the discovery of MRI, penicillin, or gunpowder. If a person gets cancer, perhaps a slightly out of synch beaming from a starship to an unknown planet, will make them better.

Alternatively, I started my chemo yesterday, I am on my bottle, I can’t sleep, and my brain is screwed up more than usual. Or perhaps I just want that starship Enterprise experience before I die. If someone is interested and builds a beaming machine, please contact me, I am happy to take part in a suitable trial.

Alternatively, I could just be the unknown chap who gets beamed down to die.