I’m on a second, parallel chemo these days, getting it every three weeks for a total of 18 weeks. I got my third infusion a few days ago. But I have to take large doses of dexamethasone the day before, day of and day after the infusion. This strong steroid is a strong brain stimulant, for me at least. It lifted me out of the amazing cognitive funk I’d fallen into toward the end of the previous three week cycle. But it was more extreme than that. I realized it had brought back part of the mind I spent the last many decades with when I was chronically hypomanic. When doing math in my head took almost zero conscious thought or visualization of numbers. When I could get stuff very fast and carry on a multi-threaded conversation with a few different people simultaneously with a chat system. That part of my mind was handed over to a mood stabilizer that I take for the sake of my family and others who may be a bit tired of my frequent antics when I’m going very fast. But the dexamethasone gives me a few days of full mind power. If this effect continues in relation to the growing fatigue and cognitive fog that is also coming every three weeks the contrast is going to get pretty sharp. Overall it is a treasured 72-96 hours, as I really have gotten some stuff done.