New Side Effects

today was the end of week 22 of self injection, which if you count the 4 weeks of IV high-dose, makes it 26 weeks, which is halfway through the year.  I kind of think of them as two different events.  the 4 weeks (which was really 6 weeks).  and the 48 weeks, which is actually going to be closer to 55 weeks, with all of the breaks and drug holidays i have had to take to let my body heal.  The one number that is undeniable is I have exactly six months left.  Half a year.  And that going forward it just gets less.  I’m at the top of the hill, and everything is downhill from here

despite that uplifting bit of cliche’d symbolism, i’m feeling pretty shitty right now.  my body is really falling apart.  i strained my right bicep, and the interferon interferes with all of my healing processes.  So strain not healing, and as i tweak it by accident it gets worse, so now i think i’m going to have to put it in a sling to protect it.  more hassle.  more atrophy.

my fingers are falling apart. more lesions, and split skin.  that wont heal.  same with my face (eyes and mouth)

the weirdest is that i chipped a tooth at the front of my mouth sometime about 48hrs ago.  probably in my sleep.  it was a fake tooth – a porcelain covered gold crown from a root canal, so the good news is that the tooth is long dead and i don’t have to worry about that.  the bad news is that the break created this sharp hook like protuberance that is snagging and cutting my tongue when i talk or eat.  so not so much talking or eating until i can get into my dentist