Welcome To My "HEP C" Life

Hepatitis C is a blood disease that affects the liver. There is a tx that I am now on which is a mixture of "interferon" injections 1x a week and 1200mg in pill form of "Ribavirin" dailly. This is an extreme and rigorous 48 week treatment and I have started september 22nd 2006

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Location: moundsview, Minnesota, United States

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Somethings Missing?

Can you see what is missing from the picture up above? Can you try to take a wild guess. Come on, and go out on a limb...are you stumped?

Our tree outside our kitchen window had caught itself oak wilt disease, probably from partying too much or a bad transfusion in the 80's, and the city has a no tolerance law against that and another disease i can't remember. Thank God the city doesn't have that policy with Hepatitis C, huh? I don't need any of my limbs cut off of me.

I am at the end of my day and I am "bushed." I wanted so bad to get out to a meeting, I am very exhausted and tired, yet I was still going to try. But in the last hour in a half I started to get a real bad allergy attack from some foreign scent, And now I am at my wits end. If I move more than to millimeters I begin to dribble snot and sneeze. There is a mischevious flowerish scent that is driving me batty. And I am such a baby when it comes to my allergies. My nose is all red and I have every kleenex in a 5 block radius used up. I just got a call from santa claus and he said if rudolph doesn't pull through this year, he sure could use my bright red bulbish nose to guide the way....

It's Time For Lemon Ade

It has been a long few days of in my room, under the covers, feeling like dirt, not being able to do anything, exhausted and miserable, days and nights. The hours have clocked by so slowly, the T.V. shows have become so boring, My attitude has become so sick, and my thoughts have become the same.

"Bring your body and your mind will follow" a great quote that I try to live by, And I find that I live by those words, in many different aspects daily. I am always living life - with positive or negative energy. If I let my body follow into the positive energy flow of the day then what seem s to come out of it is the same nurturing light. But there is always an opposite to life. And if I live in the negative energy then What follows me around is negative feelings, negative thoughts, and negative emotions.

Life gives us lemons all the time. And that is life. My life has given me a big fat lemon to live with for a short period of time. "Sometimes" It is so hard to persevere through, It is so hard to go on. Sometimes my energy is so low and I am so exhausted that It hurts. It is so hard to feel good when you feel like crap. To find strength when all you are is weak. Literally, I physically feel weak.

But I am going on, for this too shall pass. This is some of my side effects that I just have to go through. I just have to. The outcome is in the near future. I can see why people count down their shots and the days and the weeks of this treatment. This is not easy, but neither is life, and like the famous quote says "If life gives you lemons - then make lemonade!!"



I was asked to put up some of my art work on here. This is my most recent work.

**Ink and acrylic on paper
11 x 8.5