When I was scheduled for my first chemo treatment, I'd been warned that it would take about eight hours. I like reading, but eight hours straight would be a bit much on the eyes. I have plenty of video content to watch on a laptop, but I doubt I could watch anything for that long. And then I was walking through the console games section of a store one day and noticed that Skyrim, with which I'd spent a couple thousand hours on my computer (over the course of 12 years or so, it's not like that was the only thing I did with my life) was available on the Switch Lite. Though I'd never used a console before, let alone a handheld one, that looked pretty awesome to me!

And so it has turned out to be. It's a bit amazing to me that I can play the actual real full game on such a small device that once upon a time I used a fairly fancy gaming machine for. I'm in my sixties, so learning to use my thumbs that way did take some practice, but it's all second nature now. I'm nearsighted, so if I take off my glasses and hold the screen close, I have a bigger relative screen than anything I've ever had on my desk.

After six infusions of chemo, I was switched to immunotherapy, which doesn't take long enough to bother taking the Switch with me. There's a recent development lately that my oncologist is pondering using a little more chemo for, and I'm hoping he does so I can nerd out some more. 😎

It's still the only game I have for the Switch. Because, c'mon, what else could a person need? 😉

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