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January 15, 2008

Week 24 - the magical halfway point in my treatment.  I can hardly believe it, what a roller coaster its been, and no doubt more to come, but it does give me hope that I shall get through this disgusting, horrible, revolting treatment with most of my body still intact, albeit rather battered, bald and bruised. 

Today will be my 24th injection and when it comes to week 48 and my final injection I will still have to take the ribavirins all that final week to finish my tx.  I never thought I would get so used to taking them that I forget to stop halfway through my meal to take them, but its happened several times now - even though they are on the table under my nose!

I have had a rather nasty tummy bug this week but things are settling down again now I'm pleased to say.  I have also been extremely tired all week and I don't really know why, I'm not really doing any extra work or anything (maybe its the tummy bug?).  Last night I went to bed at 7.30pm and slept though until 8.30am this morning.  I just feel tired and worn out all the time.

I have my 24 week pcr test on Monday so fingers crossed that it will come back undetectable, but it does take about a month for the result to come back, and my next clinic appointment is the 26th February, so I may not get to know the result until then.  Genotype 1 is notorious for disappearing whilst having tx only to appear again when tx ends, but we'll worry about that when/if it happens.

I understand there is an article in this weeks Bella magazine about hep c and two of our forum members, Chrissy and JB, who are committed to raising the profile of hep c.  Indeed I have just heard that they are to get married on world heppers day, 19th May, excellent news and congratulations to both of them.

Comments (2) for "WEEK 24 - HALFWAY! DOWNHILL ...

yipeee! halfway there! you ve done amazingly well and i ll be keeping everything crossed that your still undetectable on monday , love you so much and even though i can t be there i m always thinking of you x x x x Dee x By Dee - 16/01/2008 09:30

Can't believe your halfway already, you're doing extremely well fighting the hep c away, coping with the tx and all these bugs you keep picking up!. Keep doing what you're doing and keep your strength up-nearly there!!!. Love you loads Mum, Lee xxxxx By Lee - 16/01/2008 11:29