I'm Awake
The morning gives me its hand and pats me on the back and tell's me as it wakes me up with a smile, To reach up and feel withing the beauty of this brand new day...And I am. I got to sleep just fine and only woke up a couple times. Normal from all the water I drink. I'm awake, body softly sore from all I did yesterday. Just an all around muscle tiredness. Nothing I can't let get to me, I have 46 more weeks of injections and pills to go and this fatigue is to get worse. Then I have the time when I stop the treatment, Most say that i will not feel great right away. It will take 6-9+ months to get back to 80% of what people would consider normal. I'll have been giving my body a run for its money by then and its going to be just natural to understand that this is a Loooooong journey.
It's said that my body will start to get used to my weekly injectons and that nausea and chills and all that other fun stuff that so lovely happens after my injection will subside to not be "AS" extreme. But I can still expect to feel something of those after effects those days after the injections. Also the ongoing of my fatigue will rise and continue rising until the end of my treatment.
I talked to my nurse yesterday about what happened with my first lab test. I'm not sure if I told you, I got a call from the doctors office, and the nurse had told me that something with my paperwork with my Labs that I had last friday got all screwy, so she asked if I could come in and get another lab done. So I went up there and got my labs done again, It was nice to get front row service. I walked back there and passed a good 10 people sitting in their chairs, waiting, cause that is what you do at a doctors office,wait. And she took my blood right away and I was out of there. No more than a 4 minute visit and that includes walking from my car and back to where they drew my blood. But there is a problem with doing my labs on a monday when I took my shot on a friday. The levels are going to be so out of wack because that is what my injections do, so to get an accurate count, that is why I do it on fridays right before I do a shot again. Then my levels will be at there highest of what they need to search for, because most of the interferon is out of my body.
My Hep Nurse said I will be going in so many times weekly, then monthly, that this little situation was no big problem.
***I've become teary eyed over the stupidest things. I started to tear up at the end of R.V. with Robin Williams, and this morning I got a tear in my eye watching the end of "Studio 60 on the sunset strip" I am a sensitive guy, but I can tell this is a side effect of the treatment. But you have to give me the benifit of the doubt, it was such a happy "The Family Comes together and becomes stronger" moment at the end of R.V., you would of shed a tear too. lol.
posted by Jasondeanh | 2:57 AM
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