Simone Giertz

But then the recovery from it was pretty linear.

Like almost every week I would get a little bit better.

The thing about radiation is that it was not linear at all.

And it kind of drained me in this weird, like it was so hard to predict.

And also they put me on these, I spent months feeling like I was high out of my mind.

And I couldn't process reality in a way that I normally would.

Like, everything just felt off.

Like, I felt, yeah, I felt like I was high on drugs.

And I kept on asking my doctors what was going on.

And they're like, no, I don't know.

Don't think it's anything related.

And...

I was on this Alzheimer's medicine that they put you on to prevent dementia from radiation treatment, like kind of as a preventative.

And I found all these subreddits of people using that Alzheimer's medicine to get high.

And people be like, oh my God, bro, I was like 20 milligrams yesterday and I was high out of my mind.

And I'm like...

I'm on 30 milligrams a day.

Like, of course it feels weird.

And that was honestly one of the scariest parts of it because that was the first time where I felt like it genuinely affected my way of processing reality.

And...