My comic book brain

This -- as far as I understand it -- is the current situation with my brain:

I have a brain which looks like a cauliflower.

My brain does the thinking, then sends important messages down the stalk of the cauli -- which is called the brain stem  -- into my body, for action.

Now my cauli is infected with fungus... okay, it's a brain tumour -- cancer -- which has also grown over the cauli stalk, across and into my brain stem.

Why not clean the fungus off the cauli and stalk? Pour vinegar over it, or something?

Well my cauli is awfully complex. Even the best surgeon would not be able to scrape all of the fungus from out of that cauli.

The vinegar is a good idea. I'm already trying vinegar. Really, it's got a much longer name, it's very complex and very clever. I call it beelzebub because I can remember that.

Beelzebub is slowing down the growth of the fungus in my cauli. Not stopping it, there's too much even for beelzebub to clean it all out. But the tumour will slow down and that's great.

So now my skull holds a cauli which is covered with fungus. And the fungus is also all through the stalk, the brain stem.

The cauli still works okay, there's a lot of it and it's designed to keep working for as long as possible.

But... when the fungus damages too much of my brain stem -- the cauli will not be able to tell the body what to do. Then the body will... stop doing things.

Some of those things are not very important.

But what if the cauli is not able to remind the heart to beat? Well.. the heart will forget to beat... and I will start to die. That's why the brain stem is so important. It sends all of the messages. So it is very dangerous, to me, that my brain stem is being damaged by fungus... by a cancerous tumour.

When the cauli is not able to send messages through the brain stem then the body will not know what to do. And that will be bad.

So I slow down the fungus by pouring on the beelzebub.

That will keep me okay for a while. For days, weeks or months -- but we won't know until, well -- until we know.

Meanwhile, I get tired but feel okay, Though more tired than usual.

And I have time to think about another story.

This one is about how Princess and Skyelark flew in an airship (with a pigeon as a pilot) and how they solved the mystery of the three missing airships.

But that is all for now... 

Because,once upon a time.

It is time to go to sleep

So goodnight for now.

And that is tonight's story.

The End

But only the end of... this story.

Goodnight :-)

Dr Nick Lethbridge / Independent Dexitroboper

half blind, half deaf, dying of cancer,

So what.

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