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Morning, All

They said the multiple myeloma treatment wasn't permanent and it's back so here we go again.  This time we're going for a thing called CAR-T which the doctors tell me is far longer lasting and needs less maintenance.  A recent brain scan, not connected to the MM, revealed that I am decidedly lacking in certain grey matter and heading for Alzheimer's so yesterday Susan drove me to Charlotte for a load of tests.  I'm delighted to say that, other than remembering the list of words, they were all pretty much a piece of cake.  This senitility test included having to identify a giraffe - the "intelligence test" that a certain orange person was so proud of acing recently.  I'm sure he did fine on reading the list of big words, too (none of which was "acetominophen").

Oddly enough, if you read a list of ten common words to me, the chances of my remembering more than about 4 are pretty slim. I was also working on half a hearing aid which caused a couple of long sentences to get lost in translation but all round it was a reassuring outing.

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