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BattleCry (Hepatitis C / Liver Transplant & Biopsy (Hep C) HCV Blog)
Thursday, 4 August 2011
So here it is, the night before the day to come. The day that I have been longing for and dreading at the same time.
Tomorrow morning I report back to St Jimmy's to start my treatment for Hepatitis C, the bloody virus that has taken so much from me. I feel like I've waited so long for this day to come and yet now that it's here I'd be bloody lying if I didn't admit that I'm terrified.
Not the pain, I'm even ready for that too. And in some ways I feel I need to feel pain to justify the enormous battle I'm fighting. I'm ready to feel my bloodied knuckles stinging and the rips and cuts of my bleeding body from the teeth and claws of this bloody thing I'm fighting.
And I'm ready for this long war of attrition. The week after relentless week of going back and fighting it again and again and again. 48 weeks of sticking myself with needles and gorging on pills and no matter how many loved ones are there for me, it will only be me who presses the needle into my skin and pushes down on the plunger. It will be a lonely battle but I'm ready for that too.
But it's the thought of defeat. That if, at the end of all the fighting and all of the pain that it might not be enough and I may need to crawl away to lick my wounds before I can return to fight another day. I'm aware I'm the underdog, that the odds are against me, but I need to finish this now, once and for all.
I don't want this life anymore. I don't even want my old life back. I want a shiny new one please, with a winners Challis to prove it.
And I'm coming to get it you fucker, I'm coming to get what's mine!
3 comments:
"It will be a lonely battle"
Absolutely no need for you to feel alone during this. Come back to Nomads and you will be in company with people supporting you, understanding what you are going through, and wishing you success in your slaying. Also you will be following in the footsteps of a Nomad who has survived a transplant and has completed post transplant Hep C treatment. You're not a trail blazer, and you are so not alone. The network of support is there.
Good luck Ian
I hope you slay that Fucker an be rid of it once and for all!!!!
I wish you the best and hope as you go through the treatment you keep your eye on the shiney winners Challis at the end of this road......
Very Best of Luck Ian...break your tx down into little segments right now all you're aiming for is that First PCR, then the next, then the half way point, then single figures. Just take each day as it comes don't, sleep when you need to, don't suffer, speak to others, take pain-killers, take anti-ds, take whatever it takes to get through. Oh and spoil yourself a little every now and again you're worth it.
Noo go stick the heid oan it
Ina x
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