Hepatitis C Treatment - Week 19
And another week sails by…..
Again a good week, not as good as last week mainly due to a “down” day on Wednesday. Son was ill with some bug which I’m guessing I had a little of too, soon shook it off though.
Generally feeling very well but with more aches and pains which is hardly surprising as I have been throwing a few weights about this week. Feeling much the better for doing that, the feeling of wellbeing after doing some training is almost worth any short term price. The muscle stiffness should be gone in a day or two and I can get down to some serious business.
I think its important to remember that you don’t live your life in a hepatitis c bubble divorced from everyday stuff. I would think that most everybody who kept a weekly “blog” of how they were feeling would have good weeks and bad weeks.
Been spending a fair bit of time on research this week, reading lots of “stuff” and spending quite some time reading the various forums, just part of the continuing education process of life with a current focus on hepatitis c. Its very interesting to view from a distance how other people react and deal with chronic illness, it seems to bring out what really lies beneath the surface of people. You see both the absolute best of humanity and also the absolute worst, there doesn’t seem to be many “average” people in the hep c game just hero’s and villains!
The two highlights of the week were a friend relating his heroic struggle to get through the till at IKEA. “I was sweating that much that as I leaned over to sign the credit card slip streams of sweat dripped all over it, I had a big decision to make should I clean it off before handing it back or not? I chose not, to do so would have been to acknowledge my weakness so I just handed it back soaked in my sweat”. Made me laugh anyhow!
The other highlight was a friend who said upon reading somebody saying they were writhing in agony, “bring him round to see me for 10 minutes, I’ll show him what f**king writhing in agony is”. Unfair, cruel & uncalled for maybe but very funny with a deadpan delivery.
I hope you all are keeping the faith, here’s some inspiration to help you on the way.
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before.
- Jacob Riis