I think this is week 36 - 12 more after tomorrow's shot!

The anemia is giving me fits - I've now done 5 shots of procrit to keep it more stable and at a safe level. I'm still tired of this crap...and especially with the holidays and the fact that this txt is waaaaaay too toxic to do for so long long.

I agree w/Terry Lee that the 2nd half of txt is the worse. But now the end is OH SO CLOSE! I have been vascillating between wanting to stop now (calculating what percentage of the txt I've completed...I'd read that for it to have even a chance to work for geno 1s is if you complete 80% of the txt. But then I say to myself, gee, if I go THAT FAR, I should just finish the damn thing. I know me...I'm going to stick it out, even if I end up spending most of the last bit in bed - lol.

Okay, so back to the vascillating....I go from THOSE thoughts to wondering how I can get the clinic to give me MORE pegintron so that once the 48 wk stint is complete I can WEAN myself off it and let my body's own immune system take back over gradually. I read a very interesting thread on this theory on medline that was very convincing. But I don't trust my brain these days - I want my b rain back and I want my body back (well, except for the 20 lbs I've lost so far) - they can keep those!

I can't imagine anyone getting through more than 48 wks of this stuff. But I also know if this doesn't work this time for me, I will not be doing this again.

Keeping my fingers crossed that this is going to be a year of fantastic labs for eveyone.

Also, just wanted to say that although most days I can't string together 2 sentences so writing on the computer takes just too much energy, I do read mt hep c buddies blogs very often - keeping you all in my thoughts constantly and sending strength.