Friday, 15 June 2007

Day 28 (14 June '07) Jon's Hepatitis C Treatment

This is becoming somewhat repetitive - but a similar day to any other - just that heaviness in the background and the late night deep tiredness. Thinking about a work issue kept me awake a lot - this is very unusal for me, so I must ensure things are resolved before leaving work.
Had my fifth injection this evening and slept solidly (having resolved the work problem at work during the day).
Am thinking about only reporting on this blog when there are significant changes or developments, but will daily reporting for a while longer.

4 comments:

carol said...

Still early days. You will know when it's time to only report significant things.
Please do me one favour though. Try your hardest not to just walk away for weeks on end and leave us worrying about you!

jenn said...

Jon

I am so grateful to have found your blog. I am starting treatment in 2 weeks and found nothing but the horror stories mostly US ). Your blog is what I have been hoping to find and it has given me alot of hope.

I hope all goes well for you and thank you again.

Jennifer

ron said...

Jon
A word of advice from a fellow blogger. I know what it's like to feel you have only the "same old, same old" to write about each time. (Actually that can be relevant for some people to hear about sometimes - you can settle into phases on this treatment.) But don't give yourself a hard time about not writing every day - that's a BIG commitment. Try once or twice a week - that may be easier. Trouble with blogging only "significant" changes is that you can argue yourself out of writing at all! As Carol says if you don't post for ages people also wonder if you're alright.

Wishing you well
Ron

Jon said...

Thank you Ron, Carol and Jennifer,
I am back in circulation, and, thank you Ron - I will not go longer than a couple of days.

Jennifer, if you can, try to find a support group of people who meet on a regular basis - I go to one every month in London and that really strips away all the hype. Some people have it better, some have it worse, some are refusing conventional treatment - but all are very supportive to everybody and that is where the direct help really comes from. I am not sure what your local equivalent of our Hepatatis C Trust is, but worth their weight in gold!

Thank you also Carol - you have been most encouraging - I feel I've let you down by my unexplained absence - thank you for the background support.