A few days ago, I referred to Jimmy's analogy of his cancer being like little Pac-Men attacking his bone marrow: a vivid if not-so-pleasant image. Pac-Man was an immensely popular arcade/video game, originating in the early 1980's, where the player controls a Pac-Man through a maze, scoring points for all the pac-dots it consumes.
Last night on the Golf Channel, golf pro Paul Azinger fielded questions about his treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphoma in 1993 when Paul was 32 years old. Asked if it had bothered him, losing all his hair because of the chemotherapy, his reaction was, "NO!! I felt like the cancer was little Pac-Men working on me, and when my hair fell out, I felt like the chemo was destroying the cancer as well as my hair."
It's interesting that Azinzer's description was exactly like Jimmy's. I prefer to look at it another way: that the Pac-men are the chemo drugs, gobbling up the cancer cells.
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