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Walking my way to a brain

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People say that chemo affects the brain - chemo brain , it's called, though we aren't sure chemo is the source of the befuddlement following chemotherapy. Could be trauma, somewhere on the PTSD scale , right? Or low vitamin B12 ? Anyway, something is slower than usual in my brain, and I'm in the middle of course three in my master's program in applied linguistics, so I am trying out the blood flow idea. Walk while reading means telling the body that the brain is a worthy recipient of its efforts. Maybe. Oh, I hope so. Here is my answer to post-chemo brain: Magnetic treadmill, so no power source required, and (thanks to Laurent, whose brain appears to be still functioning well, for the problem solving) an orchestra music stand turned around.

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