Re: 2 DOWN 22 TO GO  

Group: alt.support.hepatitis-c Date: Sat, Jul 1, 2006, 12:59pm (CDT-2)
From: burkegilman@moxmail.net (Burke Gilman)
Abby wrote:
I understand the RIba Rage - I know that stuff makes me tense.
Fortunately I have prescriptions to help deal with it but definitely
need more than an occasional tranquilizer to deal with this feeling. It
feels like my body is rejecting itself. I did Shot #2 yesterday. Don't
have much to say about it except next week I'll be sure to do it before
I go to bed - NOT in the middle of the day. I thought if I got it over
with . . . . what a waste of a good day! Don't understand most of the
posts here from the split personality. Not sure if its supposed to be a
joke or what but the language is offensive to me so I'll probably just
go somewhere else or go back into myself where its safe! Really though,
when you're flipping through messages and you come across that it feels
like an attack on your mind. I don't think its funny. It's alarming.
That is one sick individual. Ally - you would enjoy meeting one of our
friends we're spending the 4th with - he's also into tattoes and is
working on his entire body. I haven't seen the latest in a while. I
think I should fit in pretty well with this couple this weekend. My
other friend is just finishing her chemo for cancer. She is so happy she
still has all her hair! She's happy to be alive actually. The more I
think about it - the hair matters less and less. Well - have to call
Mom. Happy 4th to everyone - stay safe! Peace & Love - Abby
I can relate. The farther I go into treatment, the sicker and sicker
various other individuals seem to be! Of course, its probably obvious
that the real problem is me, since the other people and situations are
the same as before, but for some strange reason I'm so more often and
intensely affected now -- now that I am on drugs all day long. ;)
To reflect, we know that irritability is a typical side effect of the
treatment. But at once the very nature of that side effect serves to
convince us that the cause of the irritation is not the drugs but the
outside stimuli with which we identify our feelings. From there It can
be downward spiral.
Available to help us are antidepressants, but also available is humor.
Humor in turn may be effectively expressed and shared through satire
- storied exaggeration and ridicule with the intent to correct.
I've found self-directed satire to be helpful as I adapt to the
emotional side effects of treatment. This approach helps me take
responsibility for my emotions, which by itself does not make me feel
better, but it provides an avenue for making amends as needed and for
finding ways to heal on a day-to-day basis. In short, it's a way to
avoid taking myself too seriously all the time.
Anyway, I'm very sorry, but I've got a grave to dig in the back yard.
Yesterday I was hangin out with Bugs Bunny, and that grab-a.s wabbit
went way too far. He said to me, "What's up doc, you a fuggin' joik, or
what?" And I totally lost it. I mean, what was that supposed to mean?
BG
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Burke, you hit the nail square on the head with this post.  Humor, and
music, are the only things that kept me sane (or insane) over the 4
years and 3 rounds of tx I fought the dragon.  You're going to win this
thing, friend.  That is....if you can avoid running into the back-end of
a school bus in week #32 and end up in the hospital with multiple
compound fractures. Of course, they'll probably still give you your tx
drugs anyway.....just have to cut a larger hole in the back side of your
body cast so that the buffalo fart gas diarrhea won't mess up the cast.
Are you allergic to IV antibiotics?  
elmo

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