Blog Spammers

Someone's been spamming my blog. How annoying! I keep getting messages offering my banners and stuff. Sheesh.
Oh well, not to be disheartened. I know lots of people are finding my blogs interesting and useful, and I will perservere!
The day after tomorrow I'm going for my final blood test before I start my treatment. Ooh - it's getting closer, and I'm nervous.
I'm going to go and read everybody's blogs to see how the beginning of their treatment went.
Bye!

I'm Back & Ready to Start!

While I was away, I did read all the kind comments were posted. I thank you for that…

A few days ago I arrived back in New Zealand (it's great to be home). One of the first things I did was phone my nurse to tell her I was ready to go ahead with the treatment. She was out of the office so I left a message on her voice-mail. I wasn’t sure that she’d remember who I was just from my name, so I felt I needed to leave a more detailed message. I always feel very uncomfortable saying the words "Hepatitis C’, and this was no exception. She’s a liver nurse, and I’m sure she deals with this disease every day, but I still feel a certain amount of shame and embarrassment at the words.
Anyway, it looks like my treatment will be starting in the second week of November. The nurse is going to have my prescription sent to a pharmacy in my small town. I need to pick it up from there and drive it to the city, where the nurse will instruct me on how to inject myself. INJECT MYSELF?! I’ve never injected myself in my life, and I can’t imagine how I’m going to be able to bring myself to do it – which is ironic, really, since I have a disease most commonly associated with injecting drug users!
My only hope is that the nurse will have some sort of technique she can teach me to make it possible. I’m sure that if I can’t cope my local doctor would help me out, but I should try to be brave and do it myself if I can.