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I told my doctor on Tuesday that I'd run out of Ribavirin and he said that there wasn't much sense in taking the last interferon shot. This goes against what I believed - that the Riba is useful mostly at the beginning of treatment to get as much of the active virus gone as possible, and then the interferon ramped up the immune system to seek and destroy any that was left.
I didn't complain. I honestly don't believe that if for some reason I relapse it was from not taking this last week (out of 24 weeks) of treatment.
I was done. I am done. I have a viral load test in two weeks and then the big one at six months.
Obviously I was bounce-around-the-room ecstatic. I took the E train to Chelsea where I had my first ever manicure AND pedicure (no offer of colored nails on the pedicure, I was thinking of something in the puce family.) Very relaxing. Didn't shave down the dead skin as much as I'd hoped, I guess I have to go to a MAN SPA for that. Met two friends and had my first cocktail in 7 months at the Viceroy on 8th Ave. A truly delicious Manhattan (w/Maker's Mark) and then dinner at a fabu mexican restaurant around the corner that goes by the name of Suenos. The first meal that I've been able to enjoy without a backdrop of nausea and a false front of "aren't I having fun now!".
Speaking of MAN SPA - I received for my b-day a $100 gift certificate for The Nickel Spa for Men (where the West Village turns into Chelsea in Manhattan) (http://www.nickelformen.com/Main/TheSpa.asp - it's so masculine that I am afraid of emitting girlish giggles) that I hope to use today for a 2 hour combo facial and massage. Who knows, I might even purchase some PRODUCT to take home. Actually, I despise overpriced product - my hair is so short that hair product is useless, except now I'm using Neutrogena Triple Moisture Healing Shine Serum (http://www.neutrogena.com/ProductsDetails_208.asp) because the drugs I've been taking for the last six months, besides causing about 1/2 my hair to fall out, have made what's there thin, dry, and straight so that if I don't put something on it it stands up in PhyllisDilleresque tufts. That apparently will reverse itself quickly.
I had a dream this morning (I guess in prep for the MAN SPA visit) where I was in a salon choosing a hair color. Besides the equation of balding 48-year-old + dyed hair = unattractive tragedy, the silliness of paying to change the color of hair that in two weeks will be buzzed off is just silly.
Today's agenda: gym (basic full body routine with very light weights, and some light cardio); to the market to get ingredients for demi-glace; to the bulk store to get paper towels, soap, bags, etc; MAN SPA; then dinner with a good friend at one of my favorite restaurants in Jersey City.
Life, at this moment, is very very very good.
I didn't complain. I honestly don't believe that if for some reason I relapse it was from not taking this last week (out of 24 weeks) of treatment.
I was done. I am done. I have a viral load test in two weeks and then the big one at six months.
Obviously I was bounce-around-the-room ecstatic. I took the E train to Chelsea where I had my first ever manicure AND pedicure (no offer of colored nails on the pedicure, I was thinking of something in the puce family.) Very relaxing. Didn't shave down the dead skin as much as I'd hoped, I guess I have to go to a MAN SPA for that. Met two friends and had my first cocktail in 7 months at the Viceroy on 8th Ave. A truly delicious Manhattan (w/Maker's Mark) and then dinner at a fabu mexican restaurant around the corner that goes by the name of Suenos. The first meal that I've been able to enjoy without a backdrop of nausea and a false front of "aren't I having fun now!".
Speaking of MAN SPA - I received for my b-day a $100 gift certificate for The Nickel Spa for Men (where the West Village turns into Chelsea in Manhattan) (http://www.nickelformen.com/Main/TheSpa.asp - it's so masculine that I am afraid of emitting girlish giggles) that I hope to use today for a 2 hour combo facial and massage. Who knows, I might even purchase some PRODUCT to take home. Actually, I despise overpriced product - my hair is so short that hair product is useless, except now I'm using Neutrogena Triple Moisture Healing Shine Serum (http://www.neutrogena.com/ProductsDetails_208.asp) because the drugs I've been taking for the last six months, besides causing about 1/2 my hair to fall out, have made what's there thin, dry, and straight so that if I don't put something on it it stands up in PhyllisDilleresque tufts. That apparently will reverse itself quickly.
I had a dream this morning (I guess in prep for the MAN SPA visit) where I was in a salon choosing a hair color. Besides the equation of balding 48-year-old + dyed hair = unattractive tragedy, the silliness of paying to change the color of hair that in two weeks will be buzzed off is just silly.
Today's agenda: gym (basic full body routine with very light weights, and some light cardio); to the market to get ingredients for demi-glace; to the bulk store to get paper towels, soap, bags, etc; MAN SPA; then dinner with a good friend at one of my favorite restaurants in Jersey City.
Life, at this moment, is very very very good.
