Thats right I said Hepatitis L.

It’s not what you are thinking, it isn’t a new genotype its just a phrase a friend of mine has coined and of course the L stands for LAZY. I must admit I laughed more than I have laughed for months. Its a good sign of me feeling better, 1st stage was my return to, for want of a better phrase, taking the piss which is my natural state. 2nd stage is people taking the piss back which is a sign that they recognise I am feeling much better. All in all thats a good thing and of course my friend had a point. In this day and age of happy clappy caring and sharing almost any type of counselling in available, much of this on the NHS, it seems the aim of this isn’t to make sick people feel better its to make others feel better about themselves. That and of course the fact that the counselling industry is very lucrative. Unfortuinatly a swift kick up the arse isn’t available for free, it seems in the new age of political correctness it is deemed inappropriate, I think thats a shame.

Been a busy week all round, two hospital appointments, two days work and of course Christmas fast approaching. Still feeling very well and the improvement of the last few weeks is continuing to the point that I am looking at the slam man and telling him “soon”, I’m about ready to unleash some hurt [and he can’t hit back!].

Managed to get my nurse to agree to me moving injection day from Monday to Friday, so thats meant 2 injections this week, but will work better for me as my worst days will now fall over the weekend leaving me the better during the week.

On the bad news side I have finally had to admit defeat on the insomnia side and have “scored” 15 sleeping tablets. I’m *really* not happy about this but it just came to the point where over 4 months of not sleeping was getting near to the stage that I judged it would have a negative effect on my health. I am of the belief that taking “mood altering” medication is akin to opening Pandora’s box, its a line that gets crossed where the danger is you stop taking responsibility and take the first step to signing up to the dependency culture. That culture kills more people than Hep C ever will. I’m hoping that the couple of tablets I have had will successfully “reset” me for at least a few weeks, the important thing is to keep working at achieving a natural sleep pattern and not just rely on the magic pills, we shall see.

So all in all a very good week, feeling stronger as each day passes and optimistic about the week ahead. Having said that the famous line from Pulp Fiction keeps popping into my head “Well, let’s not start sucking each other’s ****’s just yet.”

On the sides nothing much has changed, knees [joints?] a bit painful but that has been the case for a couple of years, no biggie. Have started to itch a fair bit on the back, midriff and upper body/shoulders, this is supposedly a common effect of the ribavirin but can also occur when the liver isn’t quite doing its job. Just something to keep an eye on.

Of course scratching said itch can inflame it and I got a good tip the other day, instead of scratching rub the area with a vibrator. So if you see a guy in Sainsbury’s [tall, pretty in a young James Dean sort of way, immaculately dressed] rubbing himself with a 12 inch dildo then stop and say Hi ;)

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