Today marks my 6th week on treatment. It's hard to believe I've been at this for 5 weeks already. It feels like it's gone by so quickly. It's such a blur. This past week has been really hard emotionally and physically. My oldest child had been sick last week with Hand Foot and Mouth disease running a fever. Fevers sometimes lead to seizures to the household was tense all last week hoping to avoid a seizure. So I've barely had time to think about my own side effects. Until yesterday...
I had my 4 week labs drawn a week ago which means I would see if the Infergen is working or not. I had a checkup with the nurse practitioner yesterday. We were the first appointment of the day which was great. They usher us in and we were waiting for only about 5 minutes when the Nurse comes in. She asks how I'm doing. I burst into tears. I didn't know where that came from. I couldn't stop crying. There are so many things going on right now and have nothing to do with my illness that it just felt like too much. She offered me an anti depressant. I respectfully declined. I think having both your children have challenges can make ANYONE burst into tears. Let alone someone who's injecting poison into her body every day.
The nurse was really really caring and understanding. We then moved on to my results. So here it is:
Starting Viral Load 995,000 IU/ml
8/6/2010 21,827 IU/ml
Yep, that's a decrease of 1.65 log (or 97% for those who prefer percentages) in 4 weeks! I am so happy that all this is doing something. It is a sacrifice but it's something I have to do. I want to see my children graduate and get married. No, scratch that, I WILL see my children graduate and get married!
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