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

Saturday, November 25, 2006




I know I always say I am tired but "GOD, am I freekin tired, fatigued and let's throw that other word in----exhausted!!

My mind is marshmallow and my body aches.

My feet hurt, I have a blister on my left big toe on both feet.(yes I have a left Big Toe on both feet)

The sale was good. I wished we could of sold everything. But we didn't.

We were going to do it one more day tomorrow but no one will let me. My body can't handle it. It's not good to push it so far and everyone knows this is a last day for me before I crash. I want to but I can't be superman. I'm glad I have friends and family who know when to tell me enough is enough. So i took down all the garage sale signs. and I've let it go.

My throat is on the verge of sore. I have been out in the cold for 2 days. The weather has been nice, but chilly sometimes. So all that has taken its toll. I'm not looking forward to how sore I will feel whern I wake up through out the night. That is when the pain hits. But this too shall pass.

I am glad to have been there for my friend. Sometimes we need to sacrifice our selfish ways to help better the needs of others. This sale had to happen. The stuff had to go and someone needed to help her. So my family as well as my friend Kathy and yesterday brian did just that. It takes a village, right? It takes friends and I am so grateful to know what friends are today.

And it was 2 beautiful days spent with my mom and dad. That was my energy of warmth these 2 days. Whenever we spend time together and if I want to hang out with them- I will go upstairs where they are and watch a T.V. show with them. That is the the way we spend a lot of our time together. But these 2 days have been sitting in the garage, on chairs, hanging out with no T.V. - Quality time that means the world to me. It really meant so much to have that. It was worth all the blister and aches and tiredness I feel. It was worth the chilly mornings and cold hands and frozen feet. It was worth it to have some one on one time- Mom, Dad, and son. It doesn't matter what we were doing - we were doing it together.

Off to the dreams I so need in my sleep.