I've taken this week to rest, retreat and regroup.  Had a couple of appointments that I kept, but otherwise, pretty low profile.  I'm on day 4 of antibiotics, thanks to my grandson's visit last week.  That part is almost funny, I think I should get a preventative prescription when I know they are coming for a visit.

I'm trying to make a half a lemon ( Read more... )

When I get overloaded with information, I need to get busy.  So, down came the Christmas stuff and cleaning began.  I was trying to just wrap my head around the last couple of days with a mantra of 'let it go - you can't do anything about it anyway - it's God's will'.  I figure with 3 of them, ONE of them must have some power.
Thursday night I bit ( Read more... )

I made it to Denver with only one wee stretch of squidgy roads - yay, thank you God for safe travel and my faithful car.

We reviewed protocols, consents, blind groups and signed all appropriate forms.  They took 10 tubes of blood, did a P & H, an ECG and uh, hmmm, seems like there was something else but can't recall it.  I was brain dead by the time ( Read more... )

Dear LJ,

I've been meaning to write, but haven't.  It all started with the salsa I made a couple of weeks ago.  It is a really nifty recipe for those of us without access to good, fresh tomatoes using canned ones.  I didn't have the jarred jalapenos so picked up a couple of fresh ones at the store.  They were not spicy, tasty hot, they were chemical ( Read more... )

WOW  the passed few weeks have just beaten me up.  I hadn't realized the intensity of it - like most things when you're neck deep you are too busy trying to keep your head up to notice anything else.

I have waded through a fairly heavy depression to come out just feeling frustrated sprinkled with a nice crust of pissed off.    When I am struggling I ( Read more... )

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00528528?term=telaprevir&rank=2

This is pretty close to the study I will be in with the primary difference is that there will be 500 non-naive patients WORLD WIDE - 6 in my group, with only 3 of us non-responders.  The other 3 are considered relapsers, those who cleared and detectable viral levels have ( Read more... )

Well it looks like the new study is a 'go'. I'll go down to Denver sometime early October for baseline tests, scans and another biopsy. BAH ( Read more... )

Feeling MUCH better - over the weekend was certainly a couch potato, but yesterday even got myself back on the treadclimber.  Amazingly, I didn't gain any weight.  This kills me to admit, but I actually felt spongy from my lack of working out.  WHAT has happened to me?

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Everything going very well for John D and Tom in Richmond.  Sounds like the ( Read more... )

I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked at the scale for my weekly weigh in -  a loss of 10 pounds 4 oz  hokey smokes and YAY!

Seems like I plateaued  plateaud  what the heck is the past tense for plateau?  Anyway, seemed like I had reached a 'place of no progress' for about 2 weeks.  Then all of a sudden, a pound or two came off again.

Tom ( Read more... )

I have slipped on the ice twice in the last several days.  Once I smacked my head on one of the olive trees out back, this morning, just ziiiip-boom.   Nothing like
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