Archive for October, 2005

On the Good News Front

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Sue from Toronto is doing rather well.
As our American cousins would no doubt say, you go girl!
Is a year since I was diagnosed with hepC and almost three months since completing combo therapy. Now that treatment is finished, there’s not as much relevant material to post in the blog – life is flying [...]

HepCBoy’s Hepatitis C Rules

Friday, October 14th, 2005

Rule 2
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
It seems that there is a certain demographic of Hep C people who view the medical profession as their enemies, this leads to potential conflicts in treatment. My view is that it is a team effort in beating the virus, to wage war effectively you need all [...]

HepCBoy’s Hepatitis C Rules

Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Martin has some excellect “rules” at his site, well worth a read.
Let me chip a few of my own in over the next few weeks.
Rule 1
A very dear friend of mine, who has had a lot of experience of chronic illness in his family over the years, hammered away at me with this until [...]

Sometimes when its quiet….

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

You get to thinking, about life, death and the whole hep c thing.
You start to think “could things be any worse than this?”
The answer is of course yes……

Enjoy laughing at other peoples misfortunes, check out the celeb mugshots at http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/

Hep C Treament - Week 4

Tuesday, October 11th, 2005

Well another milestone, the fourth Interferon injection completed, the first box of syringes empty and only 11 more boxes left to go
Week 3 hit me hard, in essence I spent from the Tuesday to the Saturday in bed but I think I know why. My sleeping pattern is shot with the result that [...]

Hep C Treatment - Week Three

Tuesday, October 4th, 2005

And so on and so forth….
Not a lot different from week two if truth be told. Have felt a little rougher and a little more tired with probably the main difference being that concentration seems more difficult. I was trying to work out on the Monday what the date would be on the Friday but [...]