It is kind of amazing to feel the side effects of the Interferon coming on again.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas before they were confusing, surprising, chaotic and alarming, now they are like the return of an old friend.<\/p>\n
This morning I had my first “I don’t feel like eating anything in the whole world” feeling.<\/p>\n
This evening I felt the sleepy undertow.\u00c2\u00a0 I lied down around 6pm, and felt like I could just go to sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 I felt like it was going to be so hard just to get myself up.\u00c2\u00a0 I had a friend coming for a walk at 630, so I forced myself to get up.<\/p>\n
So all my old friends are back.\u00c2\u00a0 Fevers, Loss of Appetite, and Exhaustion.\u00c2\u00a0 Side effects make constant companions.<\/p>\n
I will fight them, though.\u00c2\u00a0 I will fight them with water, food, exercise and meditation.<\/p>\n
I sound rediculous, right?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m just reminding myself.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess I don’t really care what I sound like b\/c I know it will work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is kind of amazing to feel the side effects of the Interferon coming on again.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas before they were confusing, surprising, chaotic and alarming, now they are like the return of an old friend. This morning I had my first “I don’t feel like eating anything in the whole world” feeling. This evening I … Continue reading I feel the sleepy undertow again<\/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":[35,31,25,11,42,13,15,18,29],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-appetite","tag-brooklyn","tag-fatigue","tag-interferon","tag-self-injection","tag-side-effects","tag-sleep","tag-the-fight","tag-tired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}