Not a bad start to the week if truth be told.

Had an appointment at the hospital Monday AM, just the routine blood tests to see how I am doing after one week of treatment. Pretty comfortable with it all now, same time, same place etc so all very familiar BUT the parking is a killer. I may start getting a lift or a taxi as the stress involved in getting hospital parking is enough to make you ill ;)

Back home and on to the second Interferon injection or as I like to think of it…calling in the reinforcements. Now this was my first unsupervised injection but very straightforward, just pinch an inch and slide the needle in. Had a crazy night afterwards, the flu like stuff really kicked in this time and boy did I sweat like you wouldn’t believe. Its a slight exaggeration but I sweated that much that I could hardly lift the duvet off me it was that heavy! Rough all day Tuesday and Tuesday night.

However that really makes the good days seem well….extra good, and today has been a good day. Didn’t wake till after noon and took a few hours to become human [which seems to be a pattern] but felt fine since then, almost normal. Its of course very early to see a pattern and I will be much happier if a pattern emerges but it seems I will get a couple of good days a week, a so so one, and the rest a bit low.

This may sound crazy but I’m thinking that maybe switching to a 6 day week may work well for me, could maybe squeeze 3 decent days out of that and keep on top of work stuff etc and just lay low on the not so good days. Extend the day to 27 hours and shorten the week. We shall see.

So the verdict on week two, not bad, not bad at all. I am hopeful that some pattern will emerge from the chaos, I’d work better with that.

Tip of the week.
If like me you have a tendency to put things off then STOP it. If you feel fine then seize the moment and run with it you don’t know what the next day will bring.

Oh and BTW…them reinforcements are working hard, like a bloodbath in there, if its really quiet you can hear the Hep C scream :)

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