Some very kind friends have asked after me via a third friend so I thought I better get off my blah butt and write something.
Well I have been taking interferon for 10 weeks and have developed some side effects but not sure about therapeutic results... I guess we will find that out next week at the Telemedi appt. on Skype on Tuesday or when I see him on Friday in person. I get dizzy a bit about 12 hours after each injection and ... wait a minute it used to be about 24 hours after the injection so that's different. but it lasts about a day so I have a day with no dizzyness and a day with in each injection cycle. The Doc told us that reduced red cells may also be caused by the interferon (or my bodies reaction to same) So I wonder how we determine if there are any therapeutic effects without stopping for a bit. May have to have Bone Marrow Aspiration to look at the marrow....Oh Joy.
We were in Tazzie for a week so I got a blood test at the Smithton hospital by two very nice nurses that had to have three goes between them to get the blood and then it wasn't with the Doc when I talked to him on Skype last Friday. so he's asking ME how I feel as to my red level. I Felt good then but not so sure now. He's away with his kids as its school holidays so I didn't talk to him yesterday but will again on Tuesday and had a blood test Friday in prep. We'll see I guess.
Tazzie trip was amazing. We were celebrating Jo's recovery and snuck a trip in for me before any more treatment I may have to have. We went to Sydney to see Gene's sister Jacquline Mabardi sing the title character in Aida...at the Opera House! She was so powerful and sang beautifully and the wig was pretty interesting. We got two hours sleep after joining her for a bite a drinks after the show and getting up very early to go to Hobart to the Salamanka markets the next morning. Spent three nights in chalet in New Northfork with a side trip of a bit of the Central Highlands on the west side. Then up the middle to Stanley for two nights then Launceston overnight and out to Brisbane on the Friday. Then Jimmy Buffet Friday night, young friends Jason and Caitlin's engagement, Bev for a day and then early Monday back to the Bay.
I just realised that I should be tired! I was feeling tired all week and did not get much done around the house but the week before was a lot.
Doc Shozzenbootzen is starting to be amused by our Skype calls. and waits to see 'Where's Waldochris". He likes the mask collection behind me on our den. But we have been on Fraser Island with the ocean behind me..... Two weeks ago we we in the restaurant at the opera house so that was the back drop...the OPERA HOUSE! Then last week we were in the Botanic Garden with margarita's waiting for the Jimmy Buffet concert and the back drop was hundreds of parrot head fans in costume! he should be paying us for this calls!
www.facebook.com/TheBigKnock is going great. we have 30 on the books but we are missing bakers in Campbell River, Harare, and Townsville. have a look.
More later
Chris
