/ week 11.

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What a great outlook!I can certainly empathize with the "enough pills already!" attitude.I've heard two schools of thought on the drugs, both seem pretty logical so I don't know if I subscribe to either or both. What I've heard is the first few shots are the worst because your bodies adjusting to the crap you're dumping into it. But I've also heard that the drugs build up over treatment, becoming gradually more difficult to handle. I know my first couple and last 6 were probably the most difficult overall, so maybe both outlooks have some merit.During treatment the weather really had an impact on me, both cold and hot. I'm just glad to hear you're taking it one day at a time, and listening to your body for indicators of what you can handle at the moment.We're all pulling for you.SteveLife is much more fun when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. Jimmy Buffett [ ] Feel like rolled over fecal matter on week 11.

Weird night indeed. Yesterday I made some home made chicken soup. It was real good too. It was good until I had eaten half a bowl. Then waves of nausea. When I am feeling nausea, eating a salad usually helps, but not this time. Ended up laying there till 3:30 AM, then finely fell asleep. Maybe I should have taken a sleeping pill. On the other hand, I take enough pills to fill a barge already, and I get loath to take another.

Tomorrow will be my 11th shot of interferon. Then Saturday another shot of that blood booster. So far things haven't gone to badly for me. Normally I haven't got all nauseated unless I moved around to fast. Then I would just chill out for a few minuets, and the feeling would go away. I wonder if the drugs build up after weeks of use, and then makes one feel worse and worse. I also wonder if it is the weather too. Since it has got colder here, I have been feeling worse. It seems I have a hard time handling the cold.

Oh well, I have to be a trooper. Never give up. I will not let a little nausea and sleeplessness keep me from my appointed rounds. I'll look at it like this. I have been alive for 2756 weeks. I have 37 weeks to go in treatment. That is like 1/74th of my life. That isn't so much. Any port in a storm,they say.

Be well my friends. I pray you have an easy time on TX.