I’m the happiest I’ve been in half a year.\u00c2\u00a0 For a number of reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 The advice\/counseling I got from the Naturopath on Monday has really helped.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a mental game, and as long as I stay tough mentally and take care of my body, I am doing much better.<\/p>\n
It helps that they also reduced my dose after the break I took because my liver function was too elevated it.\u00c2\u00a0 They dropped it from 20 MIU\/m2 to 13.3 MIU\/m2.\u00c2\u00a0 I learned about what the whole MIU\/m2 thing is too.\u00c2\u00a0 They give me my dose based on the surface area of my body(!)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 So, for every square meter of surface area, I am now getting 13.3 Million Units of the Interferon drug.\u00c2\u00a0 I am getting 28MIU, so I guess I have a surface area of 2.10 m2.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess they calculate that from my BMI.<\/p>\n
And then when I got home from my physical therapy & yoga my former roommate and best friend P was sitting on the deck chatting with my mom! He came as a surprise visit.\u00c2\u00a0 It was awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 I was on a high.\u00c2\u00a0 He took me to get my infusion.<\/p>\n
Then we went on a hike on the Marquam trail.\u00c2\u00a0 It was at dusk.\u00c2\u00a0 Beautiful.\u00c2\u00a0 And it was for 45 minutes, and we were walking really fast.\u00c2\u00a0 I sweated a lot.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it was the most exercise I have had since February.\u00c2\u00a0 So we got to the top of council crest, and waited for one of my parents to come pick us up.<\/p>\n
As we were sitting there waiting for a car that should have been there sooner than it was arriving to figures in profile come walking directly towards us.\u00c2\u00a0 One of them is walking very intently, and the profile looks really familiar.\u00c2\u00a0 And I realize it is my dearest friend x from LA, and then i realize the other person is my best friend from LA KM.\u00c2\u00a0 And i was so shocked, and amazed, and confused, and elated.\u00c2\u00a0 I turned to P and asked him something like “what they hell is going on?” and he said “oh, I was just the decoy” and I threw him to the ground with a yell of happy betrayal.\u00c2\u00a0 And then I tackled x to the ground in a hug, rolling around in the grass.\u00c2\u00a0 And then got up and tackled KM to the ground and rolled around.\u00c2\u00a0 And then got up and was so happy.<\/p>\n
My brother comes tomorrow night.\u00c2\u00a0 And my dear friend LK is coming up from Santa Cruz in a totally separate plan.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it was going to be a good weekend because I was going to have one friend in.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I have 4 plus my brother!\u00c2\u00a0 Amazing!<\/p>\n
i am the happiest I have been in half a year.<\/p>\n
note: this is the first post I have tagged “happy.”\u00c2\u00a0 Its a new tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m the happiest I’ve been in half a year.\u00c2\u00a0 For a number of reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 The advice\/counseling I got from the Naturopath on Monday has really helped.\u00c2\u00a0 It is a mental game, and as long as I stay tough mentally and take care of my body, I am doing much better. It helps that they also … Continue reading Day 13, the happiest I’ve been<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12,27,37,11,30],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-fight","tag-friends","tag-happy","tag-interferon","tag-portland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}