things are going well i guess. the air is cold and the month of december is moving along at a reasonable pace.
needles & pills
this week has been, for lack of a better word, exciting. i've started a new treatment to (hopefully) kill the virus (hepatitis c) that plagues my insides. i have no expectations and there are no guarantees that this will work, but i am eager to try. so once a week i'll give myself an injection of a nasty little drug called pegasys and chase it daily with a pill called ribavarin.
needless to say there are side-affects to this combination and they've hit quite hard. to put it simply they are mostly flu-like reactions--nausea, fever, chills, etc. etc. and it's certainly not something i look forward to. on the plus side, the injection doesn't hurt as it did last time i was undergoing treatment. but i imagine in a few weeks i'll come to loath the process entirely.
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