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Title: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 18, 2015, 04:05:56 am
Hi Yall ~ there are a number of us who will be completing treatment over this next month or in a few weeks or whenever. All are welcome here.

Some of us have had no or minimal side effects and others many more.  We have had different treatments.  I'm hoping you will join me in this thread to post the positive things we have done, are doing, and will do to finish our treatment strong, and with the most positive mindset we can create together!  I think it's a great set up for after treatment and allowing our bodies the best chance possible to heal itself.

I'll go first:  When I took my pill tonight, I thanked it.  Lately, I even kiss the bottle (makes me happy).  When I got the first bottle I put it on an art pedestal and took a photo of it.  I texted it to friends who walked with me (and listened ad naueum) through the 6 months process to get it. 

I jumped on my rebounder (supposed to be good for flushing out the lymph system).

I texted my friend "#grateful again".  I met clients and made sure it was a pleasant experience for us all.  I ignored a rude clerk and decided it was more my perspective than her being rude.  All in all, a great day! 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on September 18, 2015, 10:23:35 am
Hi, Bree -- Since I'm just 3 days behind you, I'll go second.

I can picture you kissing that bottle! As you know, I've pictured Harvoni, in the guise of a tiny bird called a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, catching and eating all those little HCV gnats.

Paying it forward through random acts of kindness is such a high, I'm like a kid in a candy store. I have to hide the euphoria in order to be present to those undergoing really tough times -- there are a lot of such people in my life at the moment, so I'm thankful Harvoni has given me the energy to be a listener for them.

Also, I read anything useful I can find. There's a wonderful new book by Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., entitled The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You, and How to Get Good At It. It helped me understand why the hep forums are health-inducing -- most posts help convert what could be harmful fight-or-flight responses into healthy challenge and tend-and-befriend responses.

Gnatty
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 18, 2015, 09:13:26 pm
Thanks Gnatcatcher!  Yes, the euphoria is an awesome thing.  Comes and goes for me.  I love the tend and befriend concept.

I got a haircut and a massage today.  I have been treating myself to massages every few weeks these past couple of months.  Trying to flush it all out, stress release and nurture myself.

I've tend to read random chapters of books that speak to me.  Lately, I'm reading "Surprise" about looking for ways to surprise yourself instead of living in a rut and "The Achievement Habit" - sounds heady but there are great exercises and tips about mindset and "The Art of Tidying Up" (massive best seller, cool stuff, maybe I'll implement and it has already changed me.)

Loving on my two little dogs... all in all ~ It's a good day for a good day!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on September 21, 2015, 02:59:37 pm
 Two more weeks for Me Fellow Warriors. Not letting the everyday SNAFU's get Me down. Dealing with day to day struggles in a positive manner to keep stress down. Enjoying the posts here on the forums to keep spirits up. Trying to be patient with those around Me that still do not understand the everyday struggle and hardship that We all go through. Focusing on getting out of the hole and getting caught up despite the negativity involved.
 Looking forward to the NEW NORMAL rather than the usual abnormal. Wishing and hoping all to be happy & healthy for the first time in most of our Adult lives! I refuse to become one of the down trodden & give up hope. If this Tx. don't work I will be looking for the next one.
  ALL IS GOOD IN THE LAND OF SVR. I WILL OVERCOME. IT IS NOT A MATTER OF IF, BUT A MATTER OF WHEN GOD ALLOWS ME TO DO SO!!!! NO FEAR. I AM NOT SCARED AND I WILL EAT YOU IF I HAVE TO!!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 21, 2015, 08:08:04 pm
Hey Slats... I hear you!  It's funny how we kind of live in this other dimension... living with the "usual abnormal" as you say and rising above it.  It's either that or be a bummer. And, the positive attitude really helps a lot, no matter what they do.

As we say in Hawaii... If someone doesn't show you Aloha, show them Aloha anyway.

I have one week left on Harvoni... all in all, it's been pretty special.  I'm amazed I'm functioning as well as I am.  I've been so busy I couldn't even find time to post.  This week too... two of the busiest weeks while on treatment (lucky it was saved for last).

I try to keep doubts at bay and keep on believing... after all, the odds this time are definitely stacked in our favor!!!     
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on September 21, 2015, 08:49:18 pm
 Bree, Man I wish I had of thought about the massage, Took off early yo go to the eye Doc & should have gone to the chiropractor as well. He has a great massage staff on hand!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 21, 2015, 09:27:22 pm
Slats... get a massage if/when you can.  It really helps to relax that tension buildup.  I'm thinking (my personal, self-created theory) that massage, chiropractor, all that kind of stuff gets the blood circulating, thereby releasing any little critters that think they can hide so they can get zapped and deemed disabled. 

Right before I began treatment, I had a discussion with the Hep C.  I told it it had to go now... that whatever reason/s it had been around for so long had been served and that we both know that it was time for it to go.  I think it heard me.  I really believe that. 

I've wanted to do more and do my part to aid the medication to do it's thing... we do the best we can. I feel pretty good about it all so far.  My goal is to finish strong and believe in a favorable outcome. 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on September 21, 2015, 09:48:07 pm
  Oh yea, the Hep Whisperer!!! LOL!! Yes You are correct. Chiropractic adjustment and therapeutic massage stimulate the body in many ways releasing all kind of nasties stored up in well hidden places, hence the directive from therapist to force h2o for 1-2 days after a vigorous massage. It is amazing what a five foot 100 lb.little women can put a 6' 3" 255 pound guy through in the course of thirty minutes to an hour. O.K. everybody!! Get you mind out of the gutter!!! We are talking therapeutic stuff here.LOL!!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 22, 2015, 04:00:07 am
Yes, I love it... the Hep Whisperer!  That's me!  Wish I had made that my handle.
My cat is named Whisper because when he was a kitten when he meowed no sound came out.  I must say he gets his way.  Never under estimate a whisperer... they can be as powerful as a warrior, just a different strategy for the result.  Ha!

Another thing I've been dipping in to... lymph drainage.  I read up on it online... bought a rebounder and do a few other things to shake things up and keep it flowing... 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 22, 2015, 05:47:10 pm
Hi bree,
I wil start having massages what a great idea. Thanks. So happy for you, kick and gouge and float through all the stress to a calm and kind SVR. The new normal. The new you. It's exciting isn't it? Cal  :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 22, 2015, 06:39:22 pm
Cal ~ Yep, very exciting.  The new normal.  The new me.  I think that will be my mantra.

So glad you will get a massage!  I feel a little punky the next day (like I do anyway after a massage)... but the next day after that... I feel great.  I know it gets things flowing and relieves that tension thingy that can go with treatment.

#grateful.  I'm getting new pv solar on my home... they just called to hook it up on Friday. I just visited with my neighbor (lived next door for 20+ years, never really talked). Just got a new referral for my business.  I just keep looking for the good stuff.  Trying to stay in the present and also keep looking forward!

Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: BDK on September 22, 2015, 09:05:23 pm
Yay - 16 more days of Harvoni to go - AND got my first undetected result today (bloods drawn at end of week 8 - previous bloods drawn at week 3 were VL of 70).  Very exciting, even though I know that the big one is another 3 1/2  months away.  I will be glad to see what "me off Harvoni" is going to feel like - I have no idea of how to attribute how I feel physically to what anymore (meds, disease, diet, lack pf exercise, etc etc.).  Not that I feel bad at all, but it's hard to believe that Harvoni is killing off the virus with no symptoms, even subtle ones, at all.  I'm so grateful I was able to get this drug, and so angry that it isn't available to everyone who needs it.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 22, 2015, 09:14:19 pm
TDK hat's awesome you are undetected!  It feels so good to see that on the test!  Yes, we will all wait for the Cure status, but darn, it feels good and amazing to see UND!  16 days will go quick... I'm down to 6 days!

I feel the same way... not sure what is age and just my body and liver status and what is effect of Harvoni.  I too am curious how I will feel afterward... I'm hopeful to feel even better than before this whole process started.

So grateful for all of us and hopeful for those waiting.  I feel like their day will come too...
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on September 22, 2015, 11:54:08 pm
Bree, intersting!! The New Me Bree!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 22, 2015, 11:58:17 pm
Yes, we have Kimintheforest and Breeonthebeach!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 23, 2015, 06:13:07 pm
From the New Me Bree... what am I grateful for today:

1.  Harvoni
2.  Forum friends
3.  Regular friends
4.  A beautiful day
5.  Eye concealer for lack of sleep
6.  My two little doggies (Sophie and Sebastian) or S & S for short
7.  Really cool profession (I guess you can call it work)
8.  Life in general
9.  Quiet times
10. A cure for HCV

Stay tuned... 5 days left... then it's the coveted post treatment ;)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 24, 2015, 08:56:02 pm
Here's what I did today (after a great sleep aided by pharmaceuticals)....

I wrote a letter to the supervisor of my case worker at Gilead Support Path raving on how wonderful she is (very true) and how she went the extra mile to get me on treatment.  I also told her how grateful I am that I was able to be treated with these miracle drugs. 

When I initially told my case worker I wanted to write a letter about her she said "not necessary, I was just doing my job".  Nope she did more. She spent 5 hours haggling with my insurance company (to no avail) and she got me approved through Support Path.  I know how lucky I am... and I am so grateful!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on September 25, 2015, 02:07:12 am
Bree!

That is awesome! Especially in view of current "customer service" norms. Good of you to make sure this person gets credit where credit's due :)

Closing the gap you are. Woot!

Marianne :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 25, 2015, 05:02:39 pm
Thank you byebyec!  Today.  3 days left! 

Feeling good!  (That's what I tell myself every day, even though I have some of those "old hepc physical flu-like yucky feelings" here and there, kind of scary but I try to override them).   I'm like... well...happy!

You know that song by Imagine Dragon (love that group) - "Sitting on Top of the Word" -  I have it on my ipod when I walk - kind of feel like that.  Think I'll go play it right now!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 25, 2015, 07:17:54 pm
Oh Bree,
You sound so happy new you! You've wanted this and it's yours. I'm sure it's in the bag. Can't wait for a time that's not revolving around 7.30am and 7.30pm everyday :-X.  Your sitting on top of the world. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 25, 2015, 07:33:37 pm
Thank you Cal.  I feel so bad for all that you are going through.  No Question, it's altering to go through this process, both physically and emotionally.  I hope the corner turns quickly for you.  I mentally keep psyching myself so I don't fall in to the quagmire of doubt and fear. I'm fortunate my symptoms have been so mild this time around. 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 25, 2015, 09:05:14 pm
Bree,
That's really kind of you. But I'm still kickin and gouging and I am still on the drugs! My biggest fear is being taken off them before EOT (2 weeks shy) like last time. You will see a flurry of manic posting from me in those last 2 weeks! Cal
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 06:09:45 pm
Well, here I am - last day of treatment.  I'm quiet today - this is not only a physical journey, it is a mental and emotional one, and if you will... a spiritual one as well.

I feel optimistic and when fears crop up, rather than pushing them away, I just acknowledge them and re-direct my thoughts as best I can to what I want and believe to be true.  ("Oh there you are, you pesky little fear... it's o.k., I understand and now I have to embrace my new health").

I was telling HepC goodbye and then I realized, I already told it that before I started treatment... so it's gone!  It had it's time and now it left... Now... on with life!   
hmmm... the new me Bree aka Bree on the beach   
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Philadelphia on September 27, 2015, 06:25:20 pm
All the very best!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on September 27, 2015, 07:13:27 pm
Amen! All new me Bree!

Happy Trails to You! On to post tx!

<3 Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 27, 2015, 07:22:03 pm
Hi Bree,'
Sounds like your using some mindfulness techniques. I have been attempting to use the same. Sometimes I'm better at it than others. I think when your sick,  it's harder to be positive. But when you feel good, then you start thinking along those lines, and those fears are just pesky little annoyances. Good on you Bree. Cal 8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 08:08:00 pm
Thanks Philly!  I enjoy your posts.  BTW... by granddaughter 2 years old, loves horses, no fear at all.   It started at a fair thing when she wouldn't get off the horse.  Her Mom is taking her riding on the big huge horses.  She absolutely loves it. My good friend, who raised thoroughbreds, said once you are hooked, it's over. 

For me, I had a mean shetland pony when I was young. ha.   
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 08:09:03 pm
Thanks Marianne!  I'm rooting for all of us.  Because we are awesome and we so deserve it!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 08:23:22 pm
Hi Cal.  Thank you for your comment on the mindfulness.  I appreciate how real you are.  I know I've had it easier than many and it's hard when you have real challenges (been there and I remember).  I haven't had the riba to contend with which is a different ball game.

Truth be told, these last two days have been physically challenging... and I could go all over the place with that.  I didn't even want to give it power by putting it into words.  I was lucky I could take it easy and stay out of the "shoulds" (easier said that done too).

And my desire for a cure is so strong (as with all of us)... if I don't keep my eye on "managing my state" as Tony Robbins calls it, I'll succumb to symptoms (real or imaginary - difficult to distinguish at times), fear and anxiety.  It's effort.... and that's with having it relatively easy!!!

I'm going to see what I can do to live life... and see how I can move forward during this waiting phase.  Less focus on waiting and more focus on living life!   
I'll just keep choosing gratitude.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 27, 2015, 08:51:34 pm
Dearest Bree,
You too are honest to the core.  What you said here resonates clear as a shiny bell.

"And my desire for a cure is so strong (as with all of us)... if I don't keep my eye on "managing my state" as Tony Robbins calls it, I'll succumb to symptoms (real or imaginary - difficult to distinguish at times), fear and anxiety.  It's effort.... and that's with having it relatively easy!!!"

I use Russ Harris's The Happiness Trap" a mindfulness book and I have been attending (when well enough) a mindfulness course every Wednesday night. It's along the same lines. I see the sxs as annoyances that are getting in my way right now. Would be so easy to be fearful especially with the Riba anxiety and speeds. Yes you are lucky not to have the ribas, they mess with your head!

We have to keep on looking forward not inward or backward. Then no matter what happens post tx, we can realise our dreams of being HCV free. You are sooooo close Bree. Cal :-*
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 09:16:10 pm
Sweet Cal... Mahalo (Hawaiian thank you) for that...

I read and study happiness a lot.  I'm one of those that needs that.  (And I took personal growth classes during interferon/riba to keep from going completely crazy.)

I am definitely starting a thread on post treatment.  Thinking about a name.  I want it to be positive and focus on the positive side of life after treatment.  Most of the SVR rates are encouraging and a lot of sides post treatment are scary and every time I go there I kind of freak out.  So I quit going there so I would quit freaking out. 

We all need a safe place to land and discuss our fears and symptoms and concerns.  Often we are the only ones who understand.  It's also important for the ones trying to get treatment or scared to start treatment to have positive influence.  I want to hold that space for us.  I hope to contribute in that way.  Fingers crossed.

I have a few friends who believe I'm cured even when I get scared and talk me back into believing.  They refuse to let me go there.  I'm so lucky that way.  I pick my inner circle carefully. The mind is a powerful thing.

Why do they sometimes use placebos in clinical trials?  I think is because of the power of the mind to tell the body what to do! 

What's so awesome about the forum is when one is down, we pick them up and vice versa.  Pretty amazing when you think about it... friends around the globe, no borders, no religious or politicial agendas... just wanting healing for all! I think we are making the world a better place!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: KimInTheForest on September 27, 2015, 09:27:35 pm
Congratulations on finishing treatment today, New Bree On The Beach! And to drummerman too, also finishing today. And to all the rest of us - either recently finished or coming approaching the finish line. Wish we could figure out a way to have some big ole party somewhere!

kim  8) <- sunglasses in honor of your beach
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 09:39:20 pm
I know... everyone come to Hawaii and visit me!   8)

Second best option... we could have a conference call.  I am used to moderating conference calls so I could facilitate... and we could think of a cool name... "Ohana" is the Hawaiian word for family.  The "Ohana of Hope" conference call... or something like that. Ideas?

I'm not so sure we need to refer to ourselves as Hepc'ers anymore.. because hey, we're not!!!  Past life!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: KimInTheForest on September 27, 2015, 09:52:29 pm
I say we all come to Hawaii. Ha Ha! ;)

kim
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 09:55:02 pm
Agree! 

Cal, I just ordered that book "The Happiness Trap" from our excellent public library.
It looks really good.  I like that it's "reasoning based".
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on September 27, 2015, 10:14:28 pm
I'm so happy for you!  Paradise in good health with friends and family.  Doesn't get much better!  ;D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 10:25:48 pm
Thanks Else!  I agree!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 27, 2015, 11:21:52 pm
Bree,
You have so much to give. If you can teach acceptance and mindfulness it will be so important to navigate the sxs. Post tx can be a sad lonely time, but it doesn't have to be. I think there is just such a let down after going through tx and it's expectation of instant health. Nut the immune system has to readjust to not having HCV and there's so many damaged areas which are in the process of healing. It all seems a negative thing, when it can be a positive thing, if you go with the flow and keep your head together. I never got over my first tx, but the battle was to keep my head together and not lose it because it was hard. You could do an amazing thread on that.
You'll live the a Happiness Trap, I bought a copy for both my sons. They have anxiety disorders. They love it. Cal :-*
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 27, 2015, 11:23:09 pm
I have been to Hawaii twice. I love it. I will come back again one day. What Island are you on? Cal :-*
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on September 27, 2015, 11:23:23 pm
 Bree, guess I'll have to get a new bilge bump and sail for My pirogue!!!! Now where are those old sheets & coffee cans--- HMMMMM, I wonder!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 27, 2015, 11:26:08 pm
I wish we could all gave dinner! An SVR club annual event. We could go to a different persons place. Dreaming.... Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 11:37:58 pm
Dreams do come true! :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 11:49:27 pm
Cal, I sent you a pm about my location.  Come on over!

A few of my friends (the ones who encourage me) seem to think I'll instantly be well and conquer the world. I know better. I feel more quiet and introspective and feel like taking time to heal and listening to my body dictate the pace.  A nudge here and there doesn't hurt though :)  Maybe a happy medium is a good goal.

Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 27, 2015, 11:54:01 pm
Slats the winds would blow you here at warp speed right now.  Where are you anyway?
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on September 28, 2015, 12:04:00 am
 As Cal put it in the deep south. The wild and wooly wilderness of Houston, Texas! How do I get there again??? Take a left at California??? LOL.
 I have been feeling so good and been so excited for You guys that I completely forgot about all the B.S. going on!!!! Inventory is in the bag , got a good nights sleep ,and have been doing nothing but having fun here all damn day!!! Wait a tic--- I here My harpoonis calling out to be counted for the fourth time today!!!! Yep still nine of them little buggers left.
  So Happy, Happy ,Happy for You Guys. Well Time for Me to go nighty night, Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite! That is if You can sleep at all!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 28, 2015, 12:31:44 am
Bree, I Pmed you back.

You restore yourself at your pace. Be kind and caring to yourself. Your body and brain has had a bit of a shock. No more HCV? What am I meant to do now, I've been warehousing that thing for years. Yes the immune system will have to find a hobby.  8) Slow and steady wins the race and all that. To expect to jump into a new improved you straight away will oly be a let down, so be Sinatra and do it your way. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 28, 2015, 04:45:56 am
Well it's done!  Took last pill.  Kind of surreal.  I went to set my alarm for tomorrow, then realized I don't have to!  I'm pretty excited, I'm looking forward to this next step in recovery. 

Thank you Harvoni (I love you), Gilead Support Path, Forum people, friends, docs and nurses, the pharmacy, the attorney, even my advocate at the insurance company (she tried anyway) and everyone who championed for me to have this cure.  I am eternally grateful!!! 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Philadelphia on September 28, 2015, 05:38:41 am
Brava! Onwards to SRV12
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on September 28, 2015, 11:09:40 am
It's a GOOD DAY!!!

 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

<3 Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on September 28, 2015, 12:35:44 pm
You did it!  8)  Undetected at 4 1/2 weeks?  Never gonna be detected after 12 weeks!!!
I'm so happy for you!  ;D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on September 28, 2015, 01:02:37 pm
I am right behind you Bree, 20 pills left. The pharmacy called me this morning to let me know this was their last call to me, and to say your almost done, we won't be calling and checking on you anymore...woo woo !!! I am glad you made it, here is to the beginning of a new chapter in your life!!!!!! Congrats!!


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on September 28, 2015, 02:33:11 pm
Yay Scout!!!

You're almost there too! How does the finish line look???

:D Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 28, 2015, 04:43:37 pm
Bree,
So exciting. No more pills, that must be a weird feeling, everything you do is planned around pill time! Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 28, 2015, 08:05:06 pm
Hey Scout... 20 days will fly by... looking back... it went fast.  And, I know how you feel... after my 6 week check in with doc, he cut me loose until two weeks after EOT... apparently he liked the results and no need to see me unless I had an issue.  I liked that!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 28, 2015, 08:09:43 pm
Cal, yes no more pills will definitely be an adjustment, I think I'll get used to it quickly.  Harvoni is just one pill a day... still the psych is wrapped around it.

Thanks Else, thanks Philly and thanks ByebyeC! 

Today is a new day!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 28, 2015, 08:24:10 pm
It feels different to be complete!  My whole world has been wrapped around either getting Harvoni or taking it since January.  I began my quest to get it in January, that was a 6 month exhausting odessy... determined all the way... finally got it and started July 6.  Finished Sept. 28.

These last 3 days haven't felt great, I don't even think it's related.  I went in this morning to get EOT blood work and VL results.  Nurse was bossy, bruised my hand more than once, had to take extra vials and mix them together...completely insensitive... was a real buzzkill.  I told her how important this test was.  I left in tears... then I got in my car and thought... no, do like Taylor Swift and shake it off.  Much, much more important things going on here.

Still grateful beyond measure.  It's like an extra bounce in my spirit!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on September 28, 2015, 08:48:10 pm
I hear ya, Bree.  I'm a couple of months behind you but have had the exact same year!  It gets all-consuming.

And yeah, you can't let one surly nurse rain on your parade.  She had a chance to take some joy in her work but missed out.

But you didn't!  Congrats again!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 28, 2015, 08:53:38 pm
Thanks Else!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 28, 2015, 09:00:40 pm
Bree,
She sounds very unprofessional. I know it was a let down, but you handled It well. How soon for the results? Do you have to see your specialist? Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: drummerman on September 28, 2015, 09:42:01 pm
Hey Scout... 20 days will fly by... looking back... it went fast.  And, I know how you feel... after my 6 week check in with doc, he cut me loose until two weeks after EOT... apparently he liked the results and no need to see me unless I had an issue.  I liked that!

It did go by quick, didn't it.

It was so nice to turn off the alarms on my phone, that told me it was "pill time".

dm
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 28, 2015, 09:53:14 pm
Hey Cal... I see my specialist Oct. 23... He's not one for extra visit.

But no matter, I can get my results through the portal at my health place.  Don't need to see him.  So I should have VL by this Friday (which is why I went today) as they send it off and it takes about 5 days.  If I wanted till tomorrow it would probably be next week.  I'll get the Comp and liver panel probably tomorrow or the next day.

Whoa, sounds incredible...
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 28, 2015, 09:54:25 pm
Can someone tell me how to quote someone else's post and respond.  duh.

If you copy/paste does it turn blue and you write below it? 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: drummerman on September 28, 2015, 10:00:55 pm
Can someone tell me how to quote someone else's post and respond.  duh.

If you copy/paste does it turn blue and you write below it?

Click on the "quote" button ... upper right hand corner area

dm
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 28, 2015, 10:15:58 pm
Click on the "quote" button ... upper right hand corner area

dm

I think I did it!  Thanks DM!  Thank you brain cells!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 28, 2015, 10:17:43 pm
I just have to say this one more time... I'm stoked!!!

Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: KimInTheForest on September 28, 2015, 10:20:41 pm
I just have to say this one more time... I'm stoked!!!

GO BREE !!! :)

kim
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 29, 2015, 05:41:23 pm
I'm stoked for you Bree. Can't wait to hear V/L Friday. Post straight away! Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 29, 2015, 06:00:22 pm
I so will do.  I feel like I am catching up to myself if that makes sense.  Glad I have a few light days with no big obligations.

Despite my Finish Strong and Stay Positive strategy, and a real emotional high, and positive outlook, and feeling great in general....I think I got a bug a few days before end of treatment, slight fever, etc.  No symptoms that I had been having at all.  I was running on overdrive a bit.  A little better today... emailed dr. he said side effect symptoms at this stage unlikely, not impossible but unlikely, and to see regular doctor if respiratory infection.  Don't feel like it's related to Harvoni or HepC at all... because I no longer have HepC!
 
I feel like the virus is gone, I just do.  Got my regular bloodwork back this morning... everything normal, all LFT's normal range.  Platelets a little low but then they always are.  Other than that, all good.   I'm still stoked, just slightly under the weather.... but not for long!!!

Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on September 29, 2015, 06:52:03 pm
Nah, not related for sure.  There's been a bug going around here for a couple of weeks.  I had a touch of it myself last week.  Probably a PacNorthwesterner jetted over there for a vacation and brought it along.

Garlic, garlic, and more garlic!  I'm convinced it shortens colds.  I had it for 2 days, the rest of the house, over a week.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on September 29, 2015, 07:22:23 pm
. . . Garlic, garlic, and more garlic!  I'm convinced it shortens colds. . . .
-and if you don't want to eat that much garlic, you can always do what Mom and her older siblings had to do growing up almost a century ago -- wear a garlic bulb like a necklace pendant. Mom's theory was that the reason it prevented colds was that no one wanted to get close to you.

Gnatty
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 29, 2015, 07:32:58 pm
Else and Gnat, that's funny.  My parents solution wasn't garlic but a "hot toddy" (ie whiskey and honey).... ha.  But then that was their solution for everything (not the honey, just the whiskey)... ha.

Not really a cold just that flu feeling.  In my business, I'm around visitors from the mainland and last week I was very busy... plus I ran around on a shopping spree (hey, early reward;).  You would be amazed how many people go on vacation sick.
I guess they already bought tickets.... I was feeling invincible.  Oops. Caught being human... again.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on September 29, 2015, 07:51:53 pm
Gnatty, that's just plain silly.  Everyone knows that only wards off vampires.  ;D

Seriously, raw garlic (6-7 cloves) mashed with honey into paste.  Then just little bites with water over a couple of hours to get it down.  Don't, for the love of god, down it all at once!  I did that once and thought I'd burn a hole thru my sternum.

*** just saw your post.  It works for flu symptoms too!  It makes you break a sweat.  A very, very stinky sweat.  Then you get better.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 29, 2015, 07:58:30 pm
I have the garlic... I'll try to build my courage muscle and try it.  The New Me Bree right?
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 29, 2015, 11:50:50 pm
I'll stick to the anti biotics I got last week. I have a chest infection but I am on an immunosuppressant the lovely Ribavirin :'( Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on September 30, 2015, 12:37:43 am
 :(  Ack.  Feel better soon, Cal.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 30, 2015, 01:14:51 am
Else,
Thanks friend. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on September 30, 2015, 10:01:12 am
 Hey Gnatty, This is the big day is it not?
 Speaking of bugs, has anybody thought about how long they are going to wait before starting their supplement again?
  BTW, Silly people! garlic won't work on Vampires except in the movies! After all I am one & I LOVE GARLIC!!!!! Gotta watch out for those stakes & crosses though!!!
Gnatty, that's just plain silly.  Everyone knows that only wards off vampires.  ;D

Seriously, raw garlic (6-7 cloves) mashed with honey into paste.  Then just little bites with water over a couple of hours to get it down.  Don't, for the love of god, down it all at once!  I did that once and thought I'd burn a hole thru my sternum.

*** just saw your post.  It works for flu symptoms too!  It makes you break a sweat.  A very, very stinky sweat.  Then you get better.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on September 30, 2015, 10:51:02 am
Hey Gnatty, This is the big day is it not?
Yes, Tommy, 'tis. I took the last pill at 6 a.m. and snoozed some more. While Harvoni remains on duty for one final day, I replaced or triple-sterilized home and travel toothbrushes, razors, nail clippers, safety pins (great for removing plaque that manages to avoid toothbrush and floss), and a whole assortment of stuff I've had to use in my nose since I had two massive posterior nosebleeds last November. Once I've marked the final cup of fluids in my log this evening, that notebook will be put away, awaiting the next medical adventure.
   Since you started a week after I did, is your big day October 7?
   The only supplement I use was safe to use with Harvoni, so I can't answer your question.
   You're a Vampire, eh? No wonder there's so much Hep C in the world!

Gnatty
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: KimInTheForest on September 30, 2015, 11:31:44 am
Yes, Tommy, 'tis. I took the last pill at 6 a.m. and snoozed some more.

Gnatty

Congrats Gnatty!! Welcome to the other side. :)

kim
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on September 30, 2015, 01:22:00 pm
  I vant to drink Your blood!!!! As they shrink away from the garlic breath! LOL.
Actually Oct.6 is the official EOT date. Still a little anxious about not getting a viral load confirmation during treatment. I'll find out the outcome of the arbitration ( about the screw up & no show/but billed anyway ) on 4 week test SNAFU. Over all been feeling pretty good , but still have that rode hard & put up wet feeling most of the time. With the exception of the obsessive/compulsive pill counting!! ROTFL!

HOPE EVERYBODY COMES TO THE VIRTUAL EOT BARN DANCE BBQ & BEER BUST!VIRTUALLY ALL YOU CAN EAT AND DRINK. IT'S ALL VIRTUALLY FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Congrats again Gnatty.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: KimInTheForest on September 30, 2015, 01:30:46 pm
HOPE EVERYBODY COMES TO THE VIRTUAL EOT BARN DANCE BBQ & BEER BUST! VIRTUALLY ALL YOU CAN EAT AND DRINK. IT'S ALL VIRTUALLY FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will be virtually there for virtual sure !!! 8)

kim
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on September 30, 2015, 01:33:05 pm
VIRTUALLY I AM SO SURE!!!! OMG!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on September 30, 2015, 02:36:46 pm
Congrats Gnatty!! Welcome to the other side. :)

kim

LOL.  That has such a spooky ring to it.  You forest dwellers...  ;)

Big congrats, Gnatty.  I can't wait to join the Congo line thru Tommy's barn. 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 30, 2015, 04:06:55 pm
[quote author=slats1056 link=topic=3340.msg30271#msg30271 date=1443633720

HOPE EVERYBODY COMES TO THE VIRTUAL EOT BARN DANCE BBQ & BEER BUST!VIRTUALLY ALL YOU CAN EAT AND DRINK. IT'S ALL VIRTUALLY FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[/quote]

I've been thinking about the virtual BBQ, and I'm happy to have it at my place, we have a big BBQ which could handle a moose and a gator. But I was wondering who's gonna bring the Crawdads? And are there such a thing? There must be the spell check didn't try to correct it! Hehe. Cal :P
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 30, 2015, 04:08:59 pm
Gnatty,
Congratulations on a job well endured. You must be walking on sunshine. Good on you. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 30, 2015, 04:12:13 pm
Else,
It's slow and steady but it does pass. I am officially half way today. 6 weeks down. Hoping for a smoother next 6 weeks. Woohoo a milestone for sure. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on September 30, 2015, 06:31:40 pm
Cal , You got it Cher. A quick trip next door to Louisiana & I can get all You need. C'est Bon , Laissez les bon temps rouler Mon Ami!! Bak der in dem blackwaters gots plenny o dem mudbugs!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on September 30, 2015, 06:56:50 pm
Tommy, I hope you're no longer floating battleships. Despite being a wildlife photographer, I don't own any hip-high waders. The virtual menu sounds terrific, and I like that any pounds I gain will also be virtual.

Thanks everyone for your congratulations. Cal, would you believe I'm utterly exhausted? I thought this morning's orange diamond would give me one more day's worth of the Harvoni High.

Gnatty
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 30, 2015, 09:14:25 pm
Tommy,
SO Crawdads are real? Cool, yes nip over to Lousiana and get 10kilos worth. I thought we had to smoke them? Cal hehe. (aka Jethro Bodine) 8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on September 30, 2015, 09:15:35 pm
Gnatty,
Its been a big build up and a long trip. I think it's cool to be exhausted now! Cal
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 30, 2015, 09:46:11 pm
Hey Aloha Yall!  (Hawaiian and southern)... finally got back on the thread.

After the BBQ, we'll have to have a virtual luau!

Gnatty, I hear you... the last few days before I completed and right afterward, exhaustion (not the bad kind of fatigue) ... just exhaustion hit me like a ton of bricks.  I swear a lot of it is emotional. 

Then, the flu bug.  Definitely a bug... my son had it and missed work 3 days. Lots of people around have it.  I was almost relieved so I didn't have to read anything in to it and let my imagination take over.

Today, getting better... need more time to get over this crud, but had a smile and a giddy feeling in my heart... like something really good is happening.  My eyes are whiter than I ever remember.... still feeling a bit punkish  but that stoked feeling is just waiting to burst out.  Funny thing...I have to learn again how to let it!  Hip Hip Hooray!!! For life!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on September 30, 2015, 09:56:13 pm
Thanks, Cal and Bree. I'd better not push myself for the next few days, then. Thankfully, no one around me seems to have the galloping crud right now, and I got my flu shot last week. I hope you can send your bug packing very soon, so you can enjoy this more carefree phase.  -Gnatty
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on September 30, 2015, 10:02:05 pm
Yea, really Gnatty.  My spirit says yes and my body says hold on just a minute here!  I think easy does it is the way to go...  No need to conquer the world, not my style anyway!  I'm into flow.... 8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 01, 2015, 12:21:14 am
It's a weird state. Friends keep saying, oh you're doing so well, chin up etc. I tell them I may look and feel sick but I am happy. They don't get it. But they aren't txing so I can't expect them to. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 02, 2015, 05:29:03 pm
Hello.  Just wanted to check in... I thought my EOT viral load results would be in today since I took the test on Monday and it usually takes 5 days but nope!   So my guess is Monday.  Interesting the challenge to go ahead and live even though waiting and not give it to much thought, time or energy.

I'm not quite sure how I feel...5 days after my last pill... still sleep is an issue.  I think from the forums I read that Harvoni stays in the system about two weeks (fine with me, the longer the better).

It's hard to know what's what with my body as I came down with a flu right before I completed treatment so much of this week has been a blur... however, gradually getting over that.  I do feel lighter if that makes sense... like I'm not dragging around that ball and chain anymore (aka Hep C)!    By next week I think I'll have more of a sense of things.  In the meantime, one day or one minute at a time!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 02, 2015, 06:59:20 pm
Hi, Bree -- If I understood the hepatologist correctly, Harvoni has a half life of only a couple of days. This is my second day without the "Harvoni High," and I've got quite a bit of back and joint pain (noticeably more than on any day of treatment). It's less than I was accustomed to in the years when the lupus was active, though.

The hepatologists here don't do EOT labs, so December 23 will be my next VL. What will be will be. After receiving enough major diagnoses, I learned to be grateful whenever my body goes in for check-ups/maintenance less often than my car does. I'm enjoying having the extra white space on my calendar.

Glad your flu has just about run its course.

Gnatty
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 02, 2015, 07:29:33 pm
Hi Gnatty,

I saw a whole thread on the half life thing ... now I can't find it...and tried to deduce the whole half life thing.  It seemed like they were saying half of half of half, etc. came out to about 2 weeks.  But I could definitely be mistaken.  I think it was by Moderator Mike but not sure.  Wow, that's weird that it would only be in our system a couple of days.

Glad your calendar is open ;).  Mine too and I need it  open right now to take it easy.  I had told myself I would feel way better but it's hard to know what is from what.

You reminded my, I need to take my car in for a battery change as they had one on order for me.  Ha.  I guess we got our batteries changed too, metaphorically speaking.  Take good care of yourself.  Bree
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 02, 2015, 07:53:09 pm
Bree, the way a half life of 2 days works is that after 48 hours, only 1/2 (50%) of the original remains. After another 48 hours, only 1/2 of the 50%, or 25% remains. After another 48 hours, it's down to 12.5%, etc., so after 2 weeks, there's less than 1% (0.78%) of the original amount left. The really interesting thing is that there's always some of the original left, even though it soon becomes an infinitesimally small amount.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 02, 2015, 08:22:04 pm
Thanks for that Gnatty!  Maybe it was you who had that post!  That helps a lot!

So I have about 25% left (that must be the insomnia part). ha.

What's interesting too, is that one time shot that is being tested they said can last for years, interesting how that can hang around in our system that turns over every so often at a cellular level.  Not sure I even know what I am talking about...

Anyway, whatever's left I'll take it, Harvoni can hang out with me anytime!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 02, 2015, 08:59:15 pm
Bree,
Bummer about the V/L test not coming in until Friday. I know how you were looking forward to that! Sorry dear one. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 02, 2015, 09:02:30 pm
I read somewhere here that ribavirin is traceable in plasma for around 4 weeks? I think. But is in tissue, cells, muscle etc for up to 6 months! Mmmmm gotta love the ribas! I haven't investigated the Viekira Pak yet, there's so many darn drugs in them!  :)Cal
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 03, 2015, 02:59:02 pm
Cal... and everyone.  I was anxiously awaiting the VL test post treatment.  So I got the test results today and they did the wrong one!!!  They did HBV... thank you doctor, infectious disease specialist!  Really builds confidence huh.  (Well, at least I know I don't have HBV!) 

This test was ordered when I saw him at 6 week mark on treatment and not scheduled to see him again until 3 weeks post after we got EOT results (which I get when they come in via the portal).  I even contacted the nurse to make certain the VL test was ordered before I went for the blood draw.  It was supposed to be done within one week EOT.  Yep, she said it's ordered.  It's all in the computer so I don't actually see the order.

Since I have been sick with this flu (and still am), I really extra wanted confirmation for my mental and emotional health.  So, now I have to make certain he orders the correct test, go back and wait another week.  Guess I might as well relax about it.  Out of my control.  I had a really bad experience at this last blood draw... I'll go in with stronger boundaries this time around.

These test are so important to us... we go through the mill for treatment.  I wish folks wouldn't be so damn cavalier about it!

I still feel positive about things, despite being sick and everything else. 
 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 03, 2015, 06:48:25 pm
Oh Bree,
You poor thing. That is unacceptable. How do they manage to be so consistently. Wrong? Practice I guess. Yes it's out of your control now, and you are unwell, so try to have a stress free week. It will be UND but you need to see it, I understand. Thinking of you. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 03, 2015, 07:02:40 pm
Thanks Cal!  I needed a little empathy today.  You made me laugh.  Here I ran in on Monday to get results by Friday, thought I wouldn't get them till Monday and I got them on Saturday, only to be wrong test. 

We all make mistakes and I know he's a smart guy, but seriously!  I'm glad I didn't have him do a biopsy!  He has a huge ego, I'll be surprised if he apologizes.  One of those.  I struggled with him this entire time and look the other way as he wrote the script and understands this disease clinically.

So when I start my thread on the other side "Making the Most of Post" I guess I might as well start "Making the Most" now. More lessons...err opportunities.

Yes, in my heart I know it's undetected. 
 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 04, 2015, 03:33:51 am
You're welcome poor Bree.
My Doctor is lovely and I have his mobile number to call him anytime and he's available to me. I just feel I shouldn't bother him and get my GP to call instead! I'm such a baby.

There are a lot if egos in this Medical world. I wonder if a crazed RIBA eager has gone off their nut? Rightly so too, good on them.

You're UND Chickie. :)

Cal
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 04, 2015, 03:04:26 pm
Poor Bree!!!

I hope you're feeling a bit better... Have you gone in for your re-test yet?...

Just a few more days of waiting. Then if they don't get it right... throat punch ;D

teehee,
Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 04, 2015, 06:45:32 pm
My Doctor is lovely and I have his mobile number to call him anytime and he's available to me. I just feel I shouldn't bother him and get my GP to call instead! I'm such a baby.
You're UND Chickie. :)
Cal

Thanks Cal!  That's awesome Cal that you doc is that way. I could go on and on about my specialist doc but not worth the energy... he had too much of my energy already!   Grateful my GP which is an internist is smart and awesome and willing to help!  When I got approved from Support Path, she called and said she was dancing in her office!

BTW, you are not a baby... you are one of the strongest people I know!

I'm feeling better each day!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 04, 2015, 06:55:42 pm
Poor Bree!!!

I hope you're feeling a bit better... Have you gone in for your re-test yet?...

Just a few more days of waiting. Then if they don't get it right... throat punch ;D

teehee,
Marianne

Ha Marianne,  thanks for asking.... I think the question is are you feeling better? ;).  Nothing I can do about the re-test until doc re-orders hmmm, the correct one, on Monday.  Let's hope he's in his office on Monday. 

I had an fantastic event at sunset last night.  Drove a golf cart to this pristine cliff in one of the most beautiful places on earth.  Instantly I felt better... pure joy.  That helped a lot!

I'm starting to feel a little better each day... sleeping a little better too, each day builds a better day.  I'm still struggling with this flu thing but feel I have passed the half way mark.  I took dogs to doggie park and walked 3 miles (best walk in a long time), singing to my ipod all the way!  I really want to build on this type of freedom and "song in my heart".  It's a good thing.  8)  Just waiting for my body to catch up.  I think I need to give it time... it's been through quite a bit!  Thank you body, for hanging in there and supporting me all this way :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 04, 2015, 07:27:17 pm
Thanks Cal!  That's awesome Cal that you doc is that way. I could go on and on about my specialist doc but not worth the energy... he had too much of my energy already!   Grateful my GP which is an internist is smart and awesome and willing to help!  When I got approved from Support Path, she called and said she was dancing in her office!

BTW, you are not a baby... you are one of the strongest people I know!

I'm feeling better each day!
Bree,
You're pretty strong yourself kiddo! Yes we need someone on our side in this war. The internist sounds special.  You are so full of life you inspire me. I too will face post tx with appreciation to be there. Not with despair that I don't feel fab yet! I know my poor old bod has taken a. Serious beating so far.  It will need love and care for a while. It's so important to be like you and remain grateful and happy no matter what the body is saying. Love your work. Cal 8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 04, 2015, 09:50:14 pm
Bree,

Was it the "throat punch" that gave me away? (she blushes :D )...

Gotta love ribavirin... Literally have to. I'll live through it, the victory dance with all my Happy Ex-Heppers! Can't wait!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 04, 2015, 11:09:26 pm
Marianne,
I agree.
We have to love ribas. They are getting us to where we want to go. We have to accept them now and be mindful of there sxs and appreciative of the therapeutic kick of those sxs!Plenty of time to slag them off when you''ve svr'ed. But now we LOVE them. Yummy. hehe. Cal :-*
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 04, 2015, 11:33:32 pm
So lucky I wasn't on ribas.  But I have been... now if they only made them in gummy bears. Ha.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 05, 2015, 11:06:33 am
Lol Cal and Bree!

Thank you for keeping me laughing :D :D :D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 05, 2015, 04:19:53 pm
Hey, everybody -- Tommy (slats1056) should be taking his last pill tomorrow! He hasn't posted anything since October 2 -- sure hope he's sprinting to the finish line.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 05, 2015, 05:53:39 pm
Yes he has been quiet?  Hope he's ok. Cal
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 05, 2015, 08:25:26 pm
I thought the forum was quiet... maybe he took a weekend break.
Earth to Tommy... Tommy where art thou?
I know he will be glad to complete treatment...
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 05, 2015, 08:33:16 pm
O.k. got EOT blood test done... again.  The Doc actually apologized! (Miracles never cease). More like..."sorry about that".  He said that when he clicks Hepc test both Hepc and Hepb come up and it has happened a couple of times.  I was thinking .... well, if it has happened a couple of times... might be a good idea to pay close attention to which box is checked.  But, the new me Bree let it slide.

There also did another Comp and CBC... I told them I had those done last week and she said I could have every month if I wanted and this is a new month.  Who am I to argue?

Anyway, expecting great results and feeling better every day all in all.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 05, 2015, 08:59:25 pm
Bree, glad you're feeling better every day.

It wasn't all that long ago that doctors were taught never to apologize. Then they learned that patients are unlikely to sue a doctor who apologizes. They're still quite new at this apology business. It's great that you are able to cut him some slack.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 05, 2015, 09:06:04 pm
OMG,
We don't sue here, or very rarely. It usually makes the papers or TV when someone does. Bree great that you got  an apology, some have such a God Complex.
Now we wait for good results. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 05, 2015, 09:16:19 pm
This guy does have a God complex, so all the more surprising.  This EOT test was very important to me, esp since I have been sick.  To apologize was the right thing to do.

Apologies are important when we step on someone's toes, or cost them time, money, distress or hurt them.  Having said that, I didn't behave so great at a retail store today after a long wait in line with a really inconsiderate person in front of me that made everyone else have to wait about an extra 20 minutes.

I'm still happy and grateful!  I think I am cured so I'll take a few inconveniences along the way!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: KimInTheForest on October 05, 2015, 10:05:42 pm
Hey, everybody -- Tommy (slats1056) should be taking his last pill tomorrow! He hasn't posted anything since October 2 -- sure hope he's sprinting to the finish line.

I've been thinking the same thing - awfully quiet here without Tommy's jokes… We hope you're doing ok, Tommy!

kim :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 05, 2015, 10:31:36 pm
 Hey Everybody, I appreciate the concerns coming from everyone but those around Me at the moment! As usual , being the go to guy around here I have been run ragged since Friday. The mortals need their Man on the spot , so I was happy to oblige them. Although it wore Me down to a nub. What with cars broke down, wreckers. car wrecks, more wreckers, car rentals, body shops,repair shops,loaning My vehicle out, helping in-laws , buddies , plumbing problems (no return help there HA HA ) , and everyone elses' problems I haven't had time for My own!!!!! Oh yea, I forgot about the personal banker role!!!! MY BUTT IS LITERALLY DRAGGING THE GROUND RIGHT NOW! I really wonder if people realize how sick & tired We really are compared to the so called health problems and B.S. they are having. Oh well , I continue to march on through the Valley because that is who I am.
 Hope everyone is feeling better and getting healthy. It took Me about an hour or two to get caught up on posts.
 Yes Ladies I am still kicking & screaming. Any day Your get to smell & see the flowers instead of the roots is a good one.
TOMORROW IS INDEED MY LAST DIAMOND BEFORE THE INEVITABLE GRINDING WAIT FOR LABS , THEN OF COURSE 12 & 24 WEEKS TESTS. Scheduled for EOT labs. on 10-14-15 and results 10-19-15 . Oh the drudgery of waiting.
 I must say that it is a happy time for EOT, yet a tad anticlimactic at the same time!!! I can't believe how I have been looking forward to the daily pill, seems like a hell of a lot longer than 84 days. Still having some migraines , tinnitus in left ear ,constant exhaustion. But I haven't been letting on to anyone just how much. It always seem that everyone is having worse problems or a worse day and I am just bitching. That I am so lucky to have the treatment. No one ever thinks about how things have been the last 40 plus years with this anchor around My neck. Oh well , I'll just keep on like Atlas with the weight squarely on My shoulder and soldier on!!!!! BUT, My time is coming soon! I plan on some Me time. Do things I want to do! Go fishing or hunting when I choose. Find Me a new hobby. WHATEVER I CHOOSE TO MAKE UP TIME LOST. Find My heart ( I now it is still around here somewhere, Where did I put the darned thing anyway???? ) and soften it up a little. I think I will rebuild the old Harley I first bought when I was seventeen. The options are endless!!!
  Apparently , so is this post, So let Me see if I can end it with a bang! Here goes!!!

Wow , You really going to fight Me on the internet? What's the worst You can do? CAPS LOCK ME TO DEATH!!!!!!!

 TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF FIRST SO YOU CAN TAKE CARE OF THOSE THAT DEPEND UPON YOU AND NEED YOU THE MOST!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 05, 2015, 10:36:10 pm
Oh, there you are!  At least with being so busy, you haven't had time to dwell on those issues that take up our head space, like test results!  Being busy can be a blessing at times. 

Glad you are almost to the finish line and thanks for weighing in and letting us know you are still with us!  8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 05, 2015, 11:00:57 pm
 Hey there Breedly-Dee! Yea I was reading Your posts. That just chaps My hide when They screw up & I costs us. Time , money , worry , nerves!!!! I still have not heard a word about the screw up on My 4 week lab work, ins. co. says be patient. I got her good!! I told her I allready was one!!!!LOL! I , too have noticed a tendency to fly off the handle at the drop of a hat!!!! But then again with My lack of a filter between My brain & My mouth , most don't notice it! HA HA!!
 Gnatty My Gnatty!!! How are things on the other side My Dear???? Hope You got some rest & are feeling better!!!!
  Kim and Cal, I hope You two are feeling better. You guys have the patience of Job to put up with all the trials & tribulations of Sxs. during & after Tx,

 WE LIVE IN AN ERA OF SMART PHONES AND STUPID PEOPLE!

 P.S.  Seriously Guys, You can't imagine how it makes My day just being here with YA'LL on the forums!


 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 05, 2015, 11:03:33 pm
  HE'S BAAAAAAAACK!!!!!! QUICK LOCK THE DOOR.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 06, 2015, 01:13:46 am
I'll be back said The Tominator and he was! We missed you goofing off and generally being a cool dude. Glad you have been well and that your last pill is ready for you doing it's farewell dance.
Yes I can imagine it is an anti climax. We have invested sooo much on getting well, emotionally, intellectually and of course with our time, then it's done and the wait begins AGAIN! Nevermind, I always remind myself to keep my eye on the prize. Off to the GP now to have some blood results woohoo! We still will have those to live for, for a little while yet!. Glad you're back. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 06, 2015, 01:52:36 am
Bree, Glad you got an apology :) Sorry you're still not feeling well. Your good attitude is an example to us all! <3


Your story made me triple check what labs were being taken today at my 4 week. Want that VL! No one "likes' to be an example of what could go wrong. You got me to triple check the paperwork that was going with my labs :)

So than you NewBreeMe <3
Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 06, 2015, 02:03:10 am
Hey Tommy! I mean, HEY TOMMY!

DITTO WHAT GNATTY, BREE, KIM  & CAL SAID!!! (POR FAVOR NOTICE MY ALL CAPS!!!)

Sounds like you've been crazy busy! WE MISSED YOU!!! 8) 8) 8) :o :o :o

Last pil... happy for you. Friendly reminder that Cal and I shall haunt you if you forget us on post tx's side  :o ::) :-[ :-X :-X :-X :-


Ladies! You locked the door whilst I was distracting him with my antics right??? :D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 06, 2015, 03:31:48 am
Marianne,
Your plan was dastardly and foolproof, except the door couldn't be locked, they need to come back and forth after all to look after us. .   :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P :P Cal (your partner in crime).  :) :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 06, 2015, 04:05:32 am
. . . Gnatty My Gnatty!!! How are things on the other side . . .

Sleepy -- I'm turning into Rip Van Winkle. If it happens to you, you won't have enough time left over to fix up that Harley.

Tommy, you sure came back roaring, like that awakened grizzly in Montana:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151005/us-grizzly-attack-gagging-bear-c211df0690.html

Which test is the odd one out: GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT, SVR12? They're all bloody, but we don't have to study.

Gnatty
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 06, 2015, 01:04:45 pm
 Out on a limb here , I have not studied for SVR! Just paid attention. That is My final answer!!
  BBC,  Perci told them to do it!!! Besides , I have a master key!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 06, 2015, 01:30:28 pm
Last day for you today, Tommy?  Sweet!  8)  Celebration in order?

Bree, sorry to hear about the lab screw-up.  You handled that gracefully.

BBC, your humor never fails to crack me up.  You have such a great attitude.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 06, 2015, 01:35:18 pm
Tommy,

That darned Perci! He always foils my plans! Even with the all caps... waa waa waaamp!

So goes the way of most of my plans lately, alas...

Can't say we didn't give it the old college try.

Hey Tommy! How'd you get Perci on your side for crying' out loud!!!

 :P
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 06, 2015, 02:06:30 pm
 Marianne, You just think You are crazy!! Me and Perci, well that is a long story. BTW, tell Perci straight jackets do NOT come in hawaiin print. He'l just have to settle for tie dyed.
 Thanx All for the congrats & well wishes.

  Else as to the celebration I was thinking about a big ole Texas size seegar and a six pack of Budweiser NA after a good Mexican food dinner!

   Yo no soy marinero, Soy Capitan Mi amigos en la Guerra! VIVA EOT!!! VIA SVR!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 06, 2015, 02:35:04 pm
Concedo usted es el Capitán en la guerra! VIVA VIVA SVR!

umm... make sure to have Perci plug that hole down there el Capitán ;D


                                      :o :o :o
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 06, 2015, 02:38:39 pm
 Patches?? We don't need no stinkin' patches.  Btw, can Perci swim?????
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 06, 2015, 02:58:47 pm
Tommy and Marianne, you two have a secret language.  lol
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 06, 2015, 03:06:03 pm
Tommy and Marianne, you two have a secret language.  lol

I'm hearing cajun espanole with a Texas twang.  And some random yiddish thrown in.  ;)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 06, 2015, 03:06:50 pm
 Combination of Espanol, craziness, & Hepanese I do believe. The more insane , the better the understanding.  After all I knew what we were getting into before hand!!!
 No You Didn't!!! Yes I did. No way ,we'll discuss this later when they lets Us out!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 06, 2015, 03:08:16 pm
Re:  Blood work.  I already got the CBC and Metabolic tests back... damn, they are fast on that, 10 hours! (All normal AST /22 and ALT/14 (that's one less than last week it was 23/15).  The only wacky result is platelets have dropped to 114... they run low, usually about there... on treatment they came up to 134, still low...   

Putting it in perspective, if the AST/ALT and everything else is normal, it seems like the VL will be non-detected.  It is, because I claimed it!

 I'll put all of this in my signature when I get the VL test back.

Got about 6 hours sleep.  I guess that's the new me Bree.  I can tell my body is trying to make sense of all of this and get over this bug if that's what it is (my son kicked it in 5 days (youth), me I'm up to 10 days so far...  ... in the meantime
my heart is happy 8)  (I have to wear sunglasses where I live;)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 06, 2015, 03:10:35 pm
 Now Your talking Else. I am going to blame it on Gnatty and all of You other crazies out there. Couldn't be Me !!!! No way! I am riding the wheels off of this crazy train from the caboose I might add!!!! 84 day and I still have not seen the conductor! LOL!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 06, 2015, 03:13:57 pm
Yay - 16 more days of Harvoni to go - AND got my first undetected result today (bloods drawn at end of week 8 - previous bloods drawn at week 3 were VL of 70).  Very exciting, even though I know that the big one is another 3 1/2  months away.  I will be glad to see what "me off Harvoni" is going to feel like - I have no idea of how to attribute how I feel physically to what anymore (meds, disease, diet, lack pf exercise, etc etc.).  Not that I feel bad at all, but it's hard to believe that Harvoni is killing off the virus with no symptoms, even subtle ones, at all.  I'm so grateful I was able to get this drug, and so angry that it isn't available to everyone who needs it.

Is today the day?  Must be close!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 06, 2015, 03:18:07 pm
 Bree, the numbers don't lie. The Queen has issued an edict that whatever she claims , so it shall be!!! Hope You kick that bug soon so You can enjoy the new found freedom! Oh to be young again!!!! NOT , ain't no way I'm going thru that crap a second time!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 06, 2015, 03:19:52 pm
Putting it in perspective, if the AST/ALT and everything else is normal, it seems like the VL will be non-detected.  It is, because I claimed it!

You're so non-detectable you could walk thru one of those airport scanners and not cast a shadow.  ;)

After all I knew what we were getting into before hand!!!
 No You Didn't!!! Yes I did. No way ,we'll discuss this later when they lets Us out!!!!

You kids pipe down in there!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 07, 2015, 01:32:08 am
I go out for the day and all hell breaks loose!

Percy and I had lunch, we just had to get away. He was feeling claustrophobic, something about locked doors? Anyway he paid, I'm happy. Cal :-X
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 07, 2015, 01:33:39 am
Tommy,
I think you've been talking to yourself. Are you sure you're not on ribas? Cal ;D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 07, 2015, 01:35:30 am
Bree,
That's such a quick turn around with your tests and they've gone down AGAIN. SVR in the bag sweetheart! Cal  8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 07, 2015, 01:36:57 am
Else,
Just letting you know I'm pinching this line.

"You're so non-detectable you could walk thru one of those airport scanners and not cast a shadow" Hilarious. Cal ;D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 07, 2015, 01:39:29 am
Gnatty,
You deserve a little Rip Van Winkle time out, well earned! Cal 8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 07, 2015, 01:41:37 am
Marianne,
Where did you learn Hepanese? (nice on Tommy). Cal 8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 07, 2015, 03:17:02 pm
Hey Yall... I just caught up with the last day of this thread.  Slept about 6.5 hours, feeling a little better... this post treatment thing "waxes and wanes" ... damn that medical jargon.

"I have a dream".... that one day we won't even talk medical jargon.  I swear we could all be doctors and very good ones, I might add.

Else, love the "You're so non-detectable you could walk thru one of those airport scanners and not cast a shadow".  That's great. lol.

Let's start a contest... "You're so non-detectable or "I'm so non-detectable"....
I'll go second... Else went first...

"I'm so non-detectable people are starting to call me Casper!"
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 07, 2015, 04:34:56 pm
You're so non-detectable you don't need to fly under the radar 'cause it can't see you anyway.  8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 07, 2015, 06:58:47 pm
You're so non detectable you could be an Illusionist. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 07, 2015, 07:12:48 pm
Ha ha Everyone!

You're so undetectable you could walk through the zombies on The Walking Dead and they wouldn't even know you were there.  8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 07, 2015, 10:00:07 pm
Bwhaaaaa!  This Sunday night, TWD season premiere!!!  Okay, okay - I got this.

You're so non-detectable Darrel Dixon couldn't track you. (those are bold words, my non-zombie loving friends!)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: beto on October 07, 2015, 10:48:00 pm
I'm so non-detectable I'm delectable...

Dang you dudes are weird.  Hey Tommy!  So your are now one of the chosen?  Are you done?  You have referred to us grads as being on "the other side" so we are like ghosts?

Anyway congrats Tommy...party at your house.  Where are we all gonna meet?  What city?  I like missed this whole thread...just read it today Oct 7th.

peace all
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 07, 2015, 11:02:14 pm
Hey Beto,  it's Bree... I started this thread, trying to keep walking through the end of treatment strong, positive and on the upswing... and hey, it turned into a party, an upswing of inspirational support and humor (with Tommy, cal, byebyeC, else, etc. what else could it be;)  :)  Everyone welcome, jump on it, the water is perfect!

So I think Tommy is planning a virtual BBQ (along with byebyeC) and I'm planning a virtual luau (guess where I live) and you have a graduating class of 2015 started.  We are going to be so busy post treatment. 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: beto on October 07, 2015, 11:14:18 pm
How funny.  You know Bree I have visited other forums and they are nothing like this one.  A convergence of like minded, like hearted folks.  This has been good medicine.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 07, 2015, 11:20:39 pm
Oh Gnatty, how could I have missed this link!!!   :o
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151005/us-grizzly-attack-gagging-bear-c211df0690.html
Can he come to the party?  Sounds like he'll go virtually anywhere and would make an excellent bouncer.  ;D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 07, 2015, 11:51:11 pm
Hey there,
Virtrual BBQ is at my place (Australia) Tommy's bring a gator so we needed a big BBQ. Yes jump in I do have a pool and it's hot here. BOy it's gonna be the party to end all parties! Cal 8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 08, 2015, 12:20:22 am
Congrats on finishing tommy and Bree glad they straightened out your tests, your gonna be undetected for sure.

Cal, any word on when you are gonna speak on behalf of hepatitis treatment and getting hep c drugs approved in Australia?


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 08, 2015, 12:25:12 am
Thanks Scoutdoy!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 02:20:20 am
Hi as out,
I heard yes. They are still working out the specifics of what they want me to talk to, but it'll be the patients side of the story. She read out the names of the panel and said and then you'll be sitting next to Dr. C. I said he's my Doctor, we both couldn't believe it, out of all the gastros in  Brisbane he is the representative. So I am really happy. It's 29th October so not long. It's a Q and  A style. Should be fun. I'll tell you more when I get the specifics. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 08, 2015, 02:23:35 am
Cal, that's wonderful and I am sure you will do a good job


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 08, 2015, 08:20:11 am
Oh Gnatty, how could I have missed this link!!!  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20151005/us-grizzly-attack-gagging-bear-c211df0690.html :o Can he come to the party?  Sounds like he'll go virtually anywhere and would make an excellent bouncer.  ;D

Else, how about both the grizzly and the bow hunter? The grizzly might be content to eat some 'gator and go back to sleep.

Cal, good on you!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 08, 2015, 10:47:50 am
 You are so undetectable I can see the harvoni sparkle in You liver. AWW MAMA, I want some diamonds too!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: beto on October 08, 2015, 10:49:04 am
coolio cal...we all await your rehash.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 08, 2015, 11:04:09 am
 Bree, Sorry for the hijacked thread!!!!  NOT!!!!! Here piggy,piggy,piggy. Damn that little guy is fast!! I don't have to wear one of them grass skirts do I , Grass makes Me itchy!!!! Not to sure about the coconut bra either!! LMFAO!!!!
  Beto,  The weirder the better I always say!! No ghosts, One toke over the line sweet Jesus!!! Sittin downtown in a railway station------! Somebody help Me get the fork out of My back , I'm done Baby!!!!
 Else, Promise He will behave himself, Or I'll have to eat him. Me and Perci are hungry I tell Ya!
 Scout , what do You think? The Astros & the Royals battling it out on the Harvoni baseball diamond. Think we need a section for the DRAGON?????
 Cal, get rested up & ready to kick the door in on them at Your function!!! Knock 'em dead!!! Hope you are feeling better today!!
  Gnatty, Vegetarian is an old Indian word for BAD HUNTER!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 08, 2015, 12:45:26 pm
Tommy and Marianne, you two have a secret language.  lol

Bree, a- Sure hope you're starting to feel better
(((HUGS)))
b- LOVE it! We MUST be undetectable to zombies! Woo hoo!

Me thinks it's call Crazinese or Ribanese(?)...  :P Nah, Tommy's got it, Hepanese!

Tommy, I really don't like how Perci switched sides here!!! Traitor! :D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 08, 2015, 01:02:27 pm
Tommy you are right on the section for the Dragons...LOL... Here is a good one,,, My daughters Rugby team really is The Dragons! How ironic...Royals haven't been doing well against Houston... We will see


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 08, 2015, 01:16:09 pm
How bout " Im so undetectable but I can't prove it cauce my friggin labs havn't come back"...my 2 week labs were only a few days ...now the important 4 wk is missing in action....sigh
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 08, 2015, 01:38:09 pm
LOL....good one Rosie....you almost gotta laugh at some point ya know? Like when I called for my refill and they said you don't have one ...and I replied .. I realize I'm not a mathematician but 3-2 is one ...not 3-2 is zero ....I did pass kindergarten !


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 08, 2015, 01:55:34 pm
LOL....good one Rosie....you almost gotta laugh at some point ya know? Like when I called for my refill and they said you don't have one ...and I replied .. I realize I'm not a mathematician but 3-2 is one ...not 3-2 is zero ....I did pass kindergarten !

Whereas to my specialty pharmacy, 3-3 = 1. A few weeks after they sent me my third bottle, they emailed that it was time to reorder. I ignored the email, so they phoned -- a recording with an option to talk to a live person. I said I'd be happy to receive and use the fourth bottle as long as my insurance was paying for it. Well, actually, no . . . .  All this, of course, happened a couple of days after the independent survey company had phoned to ask how the specialty pharmacy had performed.

Yes, laughter is the only effective antidote to bureaucratic inanity/insanity.

Gnatty
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 08, 2015, 02:02:50 pm
This morning a nurse from the specialty pharmacy called for a short interview. Her questions were grinners. " Are you depressed?" I said no not anymore!
                                     " Are you drinking?"   I said no not anymore!
                                     " Are you experiencing any side effects?" I told her my left thumb stopped working a few weeks ago & she wanted to have a pharmacist talk to me about weather to discontinue treatment! I said that was not realistic & I will continue the Harvoni at all costs!!!!!WOW!!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 08, 2015, 02:06:34 pm
Hey Yall,

Tommy, no hijacks perceived here... just friends being together - making the most out of our extreme situations.

Rose, I hear ya, waiting on mine... again (first one wrong test, duh)!

Cal, you are one of the best reps I can think of who could give testimony.  And, we all have a great bbq.

Scout, that was you with the pharmacy mix up.  I remember.  Mine was lost on delivery with a new fed ex carrier.  Heart attack.  Finally got it sorted.

Yea us!!!  Going for a walk with a friend who I just learned her and her husband are moving back to the mainland.  I was so bummed, I cried.  Two of my best friends and my part of my inner circle that I can could count on my fingers. Feeling oddly emotional post treatment.  She's a nurse practitioner and is a great help to me.  Oh well, I'll just have to go visit. Still blessed.... Bree!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 08, 2015, 02:09:03 pm
Rosie good answers to the nurse.  New question: Which would you prefer, a liver or a thumb?
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 08, 2015, 02:18:38 pm
2 thumbs up for the liver! To hell with opening jars!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 08, 2015, 02:21:14 pm
Bree, I hear you that your friend moving is hard especially because she has supported you. I have only a few people that know & they are all a phone call , facetime or email away. Yes, you can visit but stay in touch...she will still be there I am sure!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 08, 2015, 02:35:00 pm
Thanks for the laughs, Scout, Rosie and Bree -- I needed them in between trips to the loo. Whoa, I thought diarrhea was a possible side-effect of treatment, not 8 days post. Guess I was anal-retentive for the entire 12 weeks  :-[

Bree, I'm sorry your friend won't be within hugging distance -- bummer indeed. Good on you (as Cal would say) that you're counting your blessings.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 08, 2015, 02:57:20 pm
 Gnatty, thankful it's not just Me. I was afraid it would be passed up as some poopy humor if I brought it up. Of course EVERYBODY that has been coming around has a cough, sneezes, colds & what not. Great , now that the Meds are done everybody around Me is getting sick! So much for anal-retentive!

  Rosie, o.k. THUMBELLINA!!!!!

  BBC, not a traitor, just an equal opportunity spook-migo!!!

  Scout, Thats' O.K.! The Astros have a tendency toward choking come crunch time when You least expect it!! Math according to Jethro Bodine on the Beverly Hillbillies.
Nought plus nought is nought!! Now lets practice My gazintas. One gazinta one one time!!LOL

  Bree, Extreme You say???? I thought it was My usual abnormal!! How many thumbs does it take to hitch hike to Hawaii???
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: drummerman on October 08, 2015, 02:59:43 pm
Whereas to my specialty pharmacy, 3-3 = 1. A few weeks after they sent me my third bottle, they emailed that it was time to reorder. I ignored the email, so they phoned -- a recording with an option to talk to a live person. I said I'd be happy to receive and use the fourth bottle as long as my insurance was paying for it. Well, actually, no . . . .  All this, of course, happened a couple of days after the independent survey company had phoned to ask how the specialty pharmacy had performed.

Yes, laughter is the only effective antidote to bureaucratic inanity/insanity.

Gnatty

My specialty pharmacy was so bad....it was a nightmare until I finally got my first round...then not so bad, except they would call occasionally and say/ask stupid ass questions.  I sure hope they send me a survey to fill out.   A total joke.

dm
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: beto on October 08, 2015, 03:06:05 pm
specialty pharmacies blow
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 08, 2015, 03:38:55 pm
Go figure.  I guess there's just no telling where the weak link will be in the convoluted process of treatment approval.

I gotta give big props to Walgreen's Specialty Pharmacy in Beaverton, OR.  Amazingly competent with really fast response times.  I had a case mgr in the "special handling division" from the get-go.

They even went the extra mile to try and work with my doctor's office early on to get prior approval.  Though ultimately my prescription was "closed out" (their terminology of limboland, not canceled) , and my case mgr apologetically explained that there was only so much she could do if my doctor's office wouldn't return her calls or acknowledge her faxes.

BUT!  Fast forward 12 weeks, I called them the day I got the notice of my denials being overturned by the independent reviewer.  It was a Friday afternoon.  My case mgr. contacted my insurance to verify coverage, a pharmacist  called me on Monday for a long consult, (I think he read the package insert to me!  ;D) and I had meds in hand on Tuesday.  Wow!

If you can choose your Specialty Pharm - I highly, highly recommend Walgreens!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 08, 2015, 03:55:56 pm
Bree, the numbers don't lie. The Queen has issued an edict that whatever she claims , so it shall be!!! Hope You kick that bug soon so You can enjoy the new found freedom! Oh to be young again!!!! NOT , ain't no way I'm going thru that crap a second time!!!!

Tommy,
Ya took the words right out-a mah mouth! NEVER EVER EVER go through that young person drama/turmoil! Just some health for the grand babies and adult  kids :)   :o
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: beto on October 08, 2015, 04:32:30 pm
Go figure.  I guess there's just no telling where the weak link will be in the convoluted process of treatment approval.

I gotta give big props to Walgreen's Specialty Pharmacy in Beaverton, OR.  Amazingly competent with really fast response times.  I had a case mgr in the "special handling division" from the get-go.

They even went the extra mile to try and work with my doctor's office early on to get prior approval.  Though ultimately my prescription was "closed out" (their terminology of limboland, not canceled) , and my case mgr apologetically explained that there was only so much she could do if my doctor's office wouldn't return her calls or acknowledge her faxes.

BUT!  Fast forward 12 weeks, I called them the day I got the notice of my denials being overturned by the independent reviewer.  It was a Friday afternoon.  My case mgr. contacted my insurance to verify coverage, a pharmacist  called me on Monday for a long consult, (I think he read the package insert to me!  ;D) and I had meds in hand on Tuesday.  Wow!

If you can choose your Specialty Pharm - I highly, highly recommend Walgreens!

Else - ditto Walgreens in Arizona.  Fought tooth and nail for me through 4 denials only to have the business taken from them by the specialty pharm that connects with the same insurance company that denied me.  This is big business BTW.  We hep C'ers are the new gold rush.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: BDK on October 08, 2015, 04:57:55 pm
Done and dusted!!!!  Last pill down the hatch
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 08, 2015, 05:11:54 pm
Wooo-hooo! 

***doing The Wave here, hoping to start off a global response***

Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 08, 2015, 05:23:36 pm
Oh my gosh you guys ....I am at work outside smoking a cigarette and laughing my ass off at these posts ..thank you very much! Ditto on the trade a thumb for a liver....LMAO

Congrats BDK!!!! Your done....now go apply for a job at a pharmacy....here is your pre app test ...... 1+1+1 = WHAT?

scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 08, 2015, 05:25:25 pm
Ride that wave!  Congrats BKD, join the "hui" (translation: group).

Just walked 4+ miles with my friend who is moving (not for several months).  She kicks my butt with exercise.  I was afraid I wasn't ready but she makes me rally.  She wrote this awesome letter when I was trying to get treatment explaining how my stamina was not normal and I had to rest every few days. She's already planning my extended visit to where they will be on the mainland.

Still feel I'm going to cry any minute and a bit off (like burning behind my face) and head is "thick"... body comes and goes... but damn, I think I'm getting better  8)   ... and better and better and better.  Yep, that's my new mantra.

Better, great, fantastic, awesome, wonderful, out of this world!!! 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 08, 2015, 05:48:10 pm
AWESOME POSTS TODAY ...BDK.....LAST PILLL DOWN THE HATCH YIPPPEEEEEEE!!!
Day 35 for me ...going along perfect.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 08, 2015, 05:49:09 pm
 BDK, EXCELLENT!!! Happy dance time.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 08, 2015, 05:56:40 pm
BDK and Else,

Supercalifrajilisticexpialidocious!!! Def joining Else's
  "WAVE"
ooooooah oooooooah!!! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 06:53:55 pm
Woosh! There's a cyclone warning off the east coast of Australia called Cyclone Else!

Reading all the issues you guys have with pharmacies, I wonder if that will happen here or if the drugs will still come through the hospital pharmacies?mmmm. I got my whole 12 weeks in bottles just handed to be at my appointment!
 We are finding that the 12 seekers have approx 1 1:2 weeks extra drugs and the 24 seekers 3 weeks. Some are being advised to take them extending tx. But the hep council if Australia are collecting them by post to get a whole tx regime fir someone in need who can't access the drugs. Great idea.
 :)cal
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 06:57:28 pm
Bree,
So so sorry that your best pal is going, it's happened to me twice now and I have never replaced them. They hold a special saved seat in my heart. Yes we call, Skype etc. but it's not like dropping for a cuppa and a whinge. You are such a darling, I hope this won't pull you down, remember to keep mindful about it until you are off your trainers wheels. Poor thing. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 07:00:17 pm
Bdk,
Congrats my friend. Good on you (as I say 8) you are a champ. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 08, 2015, 07:01:58 pm
Barbara, congratulations and welcome to "the other side." Here's hoping your post-Tx is easy.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 07:21:04 pm
Thanks guys for your kind support,
I shall do my best and keep you posted. There has been a lot of movement towards the o/s generics and a few HCV Dallas Buyers Club style organisations, which I think the Government is concerned  about (embarrassed more like) so these things as well ask saving lives are bringing awareness to the powers that be of the desperation now being felt. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 07:26:38 pm
Else,
Love the new avatar is that you? Much less scarier than the shark!  :) cal
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 07:29:46 pm
Rosie,
I admire your chutzpah Chickeebabe . Thumbs up hehe! What has happened with the thumb exactly? Cal ]
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 07:31:19 pm
Thanks for the laughs, Scout, Rosie and Bree -- I needed them in between trips to the loo. Whoa, I thought diarrhea was a possible side-effect of treatment, not 8 days post. Guess I was anal-retentive for the entire 12 weeks  :-[

Bree, I'm sorry your friend won't be within hugging distance -- bummer indeed. Good on you (as Cal would say) that you're counting your blessings.
anal retentive, now you're anal expulsive poor thing! Good on you Knatty. Cal  :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 08, 2015, 07:50:51 pm
Hey Yall... I just got the final approval on my pv solar for my house.  They are flipping the switch today... meaning bye bye local power company (most expensive in the nation, I might add).   This day is going really well....

Still sad about my friend but life is calling them to where their 7 grandkids are.  I understand.  5 x larger house, same price as here.  Price of Paradise.  but it will work out... it's all in divine order somehow. 

Off to appointments with clients.  And, back to my slogan:

Today is a good day for a good day!  8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 08:33:27 pm
HI Bree,
We got solar last year and it cut our power bills in half. My sister who has no kids, gets a credit from them as their power use is less than the panels make and it goes back into the grid. They got in for a better deal than we did, but it still works out well. Costs a fortune though. Power bills were around $800.00 a quarter now around $400. Happy with that. If you've got the sun then go solar! Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 08, 2015, 08:35:01 pm
Else,
Love the new avatar is that you? Much less scarier than the shark!  :) cal
LOL!!!  No, not me.  Avatar is Eminem (aks Marshall Mathers aka Slim Shady) the rapper.  I'm just having fun with the default avatars. 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 08, 2015, 08:40:35 pm
HI Bree,
We got solar last year and it cut our power bills in half. My sister who has no kids, gets a credit from them as their power use is less than the panels make and it goes back into the grid.  If you've got the sun then go solar! Cal :)

I went 10 panels over usage.  I'll get credits back  from local utility. (1/2 the rate) but still.  I should have no power bill and the loan to purchase (with tax incentives etc.) will be less than 5 years and that was the same amount as the power bill each month.  bottom line.  Break even on power bill vs. solar loan for 4 years, then nothing, zero, nada bills!   And, plus they are changing the rules so I got in front of it.  stoked!  8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 09:04:31 pm
Oh Else,
I was thinking wow Else is very butch! Eminem hey, I wouldn't have recognised him. Love him, he's a real sort. Cal  8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 09:05:46 pm
Bree,
Did really well, you can't lose. Electricity costs have gone through the roof here. What's it like there? Cal  :-*
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 08, 2015, 09:11:16 pm
Hi Cal,yeah I thought that some had joint pain from hepc & harvoni...so I told the nurse that my thumb is not working.just stiff & a pain.I thought of it cause she asked..it was funny her saying discontinue harvoni..she must not have known what it was!!anyway I just tape it up so I don't get that electric shock when it gets twisted.no biggy!enjoy your posts so much.good medicine girl!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: KimInTheForest on October 08, 2015, 10:42:45 pm
Hey Yall... I just got the final approval on my pv solar for my house.  They are flipping the switch today... meaning bye bye local power company (most expensive in the nation, I might add).   This day is going really well....

Fantastic, Bree! Something I have always dreamed of doing - going off-grid.

kim
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 08, 2015, 10:57:51 pm
Hi Rosie,
Yeah, just play it down. That's what I do. I am paranoid about pulled off of tx. I ust don't tell them a lot of stuff. Of course when I ended up in hospital it was a different story. But my specialist came to the hospital and gave my carers a crash course on Viekira and what time I had to take it. He told them what to do and they pretty much did as they were told. I mean this is a drug that isn't passed here. They know nothing about it and it's interactions etc. So he is gung ho. So is my GP if I tell her something, like my ankles are swollen, she'll look at them and say, can you live with that for another 5 weeks? I say of course! It's all about getting through to the end at any cost isn't it? Who said the orals were easy?????? Cal :-X
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 09, 2015, 10:52:11 am
Bree,,,,,,are you in Australia also?




Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: beto on October 09, 2015, 11:23:52 am
Really...lot of Aussies...what the heck?  Cures from down under.  A feisty lot I might add... :D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 09, 2015, 11:31:47 am
aussies rock the forum!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: beto on October 09, 2015, 11:49:37 am
You hear that Tommy?  Better stand up for Texans.  That's a country you know.  Even if your football team blew it last night.

Any Zonnies out there...(Arizonans?)  We rock too
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 09, 2015, 12:33:46 pm
My Royals blew it too!!!ugggg


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 09, 2015, 12:57:06 pm
 Yeah, I think we need a coach that will tell management to go back off in their own jack yard. But, the Astros aren't choking up yet! Beside, the United States of Texas is probably bigger than that little old Island down under!!! LOL. Besides Friday night lights, baseball, and Major League football , baseball,soccer, hockey, etc. etc. keeps us amused when we aren't herding our longhorns or spit shining the old oil wells!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 09, 2015, 01:16:05 pm
Tommy, I might be visiting the great state of Texas next month for 3 days. Just outside of Houston. I am trying to get out of it though. There really isn't enough Xanax on this planet I can take to chaperone 19 seventeen year old girls for a rugby tournament, but one of the chaperones said she may not be able to go. That much estrogen together on a bus and then at a hotel isn't really my cup of tea, but I may have no choice.  But if I can beat hepatitis I can smack down 17 yr old girls! LOL


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 09, 2015, 01:20:02 pm
Tommy, um,
Texas = 268,820 mi²
Australia = 2.97 million mi²
Maybe Texas hats have bigger capacities?

Scout, good luck!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: beto on October 09, 2015, 01:26:57 pm
beat me to the punch Gnatty...I have seen maps of Australia over the US and it may be a bit larger...

HaHa- Scout- estrogen mixed with rugby...your plate is full.  All that xanax you may need to be chaperoned.

Tommy- more that a coach- Hoyer did not look bad until that stupid pass.  You can thank Arizona for Jaelen Strong   

Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 09, 2015, 01:28:40 pm
Oh...oh my god.....my pill just flipped out of my hand and bounced off my stove....did a half gainer...and fell behind the stove...SHIT!



Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 09, 2015, 01:59:51 pm
Thousand bucks says it's time to clean behind the stove!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 09, 2015, 02:09:53 pm
Lol Rosie,,,,it's not that easy and it's hooked to gas...I may blow up ,,,but somehow I am gonna get that 1200.00 pill



Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 09, 2015, 02:14:27 pm
Lol Rosie,,,,it's not that easy and it's hooked to gas...I may blow up ,,,but somehow I am gonna get that 1200.00 pill



Scout

Yum.  This will be fun.  Hint - A bit of tape on the end of a broom handle and a flashlight.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 09, 2015, 04:02:05 pm
or if the broom handle is too cylindrical to fit, a yard-and-a-third-stick, if you have one.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 09, 2015, 04:19:40 pm
I just had to modify my profile!!! UNDETECTED!!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 09, 2015, 04:22:03 pm
Too good for words, Rosie!!!  ;D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: KimInTheForest on October 09, 2015, 04:24:02 pm
I just had to modify my profile!!! UNDETECTED!!!!!

Way to go, Rosie!  8)

kim
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 09, 2015, 04:25:17 pm
awRIIIIIIIIGHT!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 09, 2015, 05:01:37 pm
 HOW MUCH PER ACRE??? I'll get a few of the boys together and we'll buy the place. Looks like a good place to raise Longhorns!!!!LMFAO!!!!!

 Scout , GOOD LORD GIRL!!! Talk about punishment!!! Make even the worst side seem like a walk in the park! Easy on the Xanax!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 09, 2015, 06:06:28 pm
Tommy! Call OUT! Alaska's 663,268 square miles and the largest US state! Umm that was Perci that said that though, lol :D

Scout, here's to you getting out of THAT! That's too much estrogen for me!!!

Rosie and Gnatty, you two are way too funny!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 09, 2015, 06:45:12 pm
Hey Yall!!! Can I get a "NOT DETECTED"???
Yep, EOT results just came back. 
"Not Detected"  I'm so happy.  I felt like I knew it all along... but when I was so sick with a bug right at the end of treatment and afterward, it was concerning.

I texted a friend and she texted back:  "duh".  My friends held the space and belief for me even when I got fearful at times during treatment.  Then she made me breakfast and we walked 3 miles (I was sore from 4 miles yesterday) but she made me do it anyway.

Keep the belief that you will be cured, stay in that, live in that!!!
Hard to put my gratitude into words.  Bree

   
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 09, 2015, 07:00:05 pm
Bree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish I was tech savvy enough to create some hula girls doing the happy dance for you!!!

This'll have to do! SO SO SO BLOOMING' HAPPY FOR YA GIRL!!!

Roses, gardenias, lilies  and fake champagne all around!

Cheers to you hula newBreeonthebeach!

<3 Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: beto on October 09, 2015, 07:04:12 pm
Rosie n Bree

Wooooohooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 09, 2015, 07:13:36 pm
Bree,,,,,,are you in Australia also?




Scout

Nope, Hawaii!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 09, 2015, 07:18:26 pm
I just had to modify my profile!!! UNDETECTED!!!!!

WAY TO GO Rosie!!!  I just saw this.  Seeing that "Not Detected" for the first time is so sweet!  And, it's still sweet EOT! 

Changed my profile too! 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 09, 2015, 07:20:15 pm
Rose and Bree,,,,, that's just fantastic



Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 09, 2015, 07:20:49 pm
Oh...oh my god.....my pill just flipped out of my hand and bounced off my stove....did a half gainer...and fell behind the stove...SHIT!



Scout

Did you get it?  I can just see the the fire trucks and the gas company coming to retrieve your pill for you... They would be thinking "What's the big deal about a pill?"  Little do they know.... ha.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: beto on October 09, 2015, 07:21:09 pm
WAY TO GO Rosie!!!  I just saw this.  Seeing that "Not Detected" for the first time is so sweet!  And, it's still sweet EOT! 

Changed my profile too!

Nice!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 09, 2015, 07:23:15 pm
another awRIIIIIIIIGHT! coming right up. Way to be, Rosie and Bree!

Tommy, what's the VL status of that gator you'll be serving? -just wanna know if I should put in for the vegetarian option.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 09, 2015, 07:30:40 pm
Bree, your right on the fire trucks. I can't get the damm stove out without disconnecting the gas line...eeegadds I am about as mechanical as a rock too....I guess I will have to put aside my bitchiness and ask my soon to be ex husband to come help me. He will, but will be gloating the whole time that I really do need him...LOL


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 09, 2015, 07:33:12 pm
Bree, your right on the fire trucks. I can't get the damm stove out without disconnecting the gas line...eeegadds I am about as mechanical as a rock too....I guess I will have to put aside my bitchiness and ask my soon to be ex husband to come help me. He will, but will be gloating the whole time that I really do need him...LOL


Scout

To heck with it, just ask him and get the pill!  Then thank him for it, gloating or not... First things first!   
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 09, 2015, 07:35:20 pm
another awRIIIIIIIIGHT! coming right up. Way to be, Rosie and Bree!

Tommy, what's the VL status of that gator you'll be serving? -just wanna know if I should put in for the vegetarian option.

We need a cheer for the party:  U-N-D  / U-N-D  Tommy you are good at this kind of thing... make up a cheer for all of us!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 09, 2015, 09:51:08 pm
 OKAY, OKAY,OKAY!!!!! Let's see here_____Wait for it!!! The brain cells that are left are clicking********Here goes,

ROSIE IS RED , BREE IS A LITTLE BLUE, BUT UNDETECTED IS REALLY SWEET, AND SVR IS TOO!!!!!!

 Gnatty, My herpetologist said Gator boy is undetected!!! Can't seem to find him though!!! I think that bear done ate him!!! HEE HEE HEE! BTW, Hat size is only exceed by EGO down here! LOL
 Scout , I guess 911 would be out of the question?????? Maybe one of the big strong boys from the local constabulary could give You a hand!
  ARE YOU GUYS INSINUATING THAT I AM GEOGRAPHICALLY CHALLENGED!!!! I AM SHOCKED I MUST SAY!  Man I need to use spell check more often.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: KimInTheForest on October 09, 2015, 09:53:26 pm
Hey Yall!!! Can I get a "NOT DETECTED"???
Yep, EOT results just came back. 
"Not Detected"  I'm so happy.  I felt like I knew it all along... but when I was so sick with a bug right at the end of treatment and afterward, it was concerning.

EXCELLENT NEWS BREE !!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 09, 2015, 10:31:28 pm
Hi Bree and Rosie,

Bree: Duh!!!! You crazy hula chick.

Rosie,

Good work, "you're on your from misery to happiness today. ahaa ahaa ahha"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEzLTSF6XaU
 :) :)
Cal


Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 09, 2015, 10:35:54 pm
Oh Scout,
That's what we call a major bummer! Ooopsy. Cal  ::)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 09, 2015, 10:46:33 pm
 I DON'T KNOW BUT I'VE BEEN TOLD , UNDETECTED IS A MIGHTY FINE GOAL.

 UDETECTED , SVR , THAT'S OUR PLAN!! IF ONE OF US MAKES IT ALL OF US CAN!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 09, 2015, 11:03:04 pm
EXCELLENT NEWS BREE !!!

Thanks Kim!!!  I wanted to respond to that solar thing too.  I'm not completely off grid, as backup batteries are not quite there yet... but night time usage will be fed back to me as I will have a credit stored up from the day (they only pay back half of what they make off of your solar, can you say corporate giants).  So I should have zero utility bill and perhaps get money back from utilities.  We have highest rate in the nation and the most sun, wind and water power generating capabilities.  Go figure.  And, I got it for 1/3 of the costs due to tax incentives and a special grant program.  Lucky me all the way around.  I ended up with quite an education when I got into this.  A great distraction from the health thing and a great end result.  PV Solar and UND!

Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 09, 2015, 11:04:48 pm
I DON'T KNOW BUT I'VE BEEN TOLD , UNDETECTED IS A MIGHTY FINE GOAL.

 UDETECTED , SVR , THAT'S OUR PLAN!! IF ONE OF US MAKES IT ALL OF US CAN!

Now you are cooking with gas!!!  sssh.  Don't tell Scout you are cooking with gas!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 09, 2015, 11:07:19 pm
  PSSSSST, ANYBODY GOT A MATCH?????
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 09, 2015, 11:09:19 pm
Hi Bree and Rosie,

Bree: Duh!!!! You crazy hula chick.

Rosie,

Good work, "you're on your from misery to happiness today. ahaa ahaa ahha"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEzLTSF6XaU
 :) :)
Cal

I danced to the song you posted!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 10, 2015, 12:03:36 am
Aha aha ahahah
Now you are cooking with gas!!!  sssh.  Don't tell Scout you are cooking with gas!
[/quote
Good one Cal ....aha aha ahahahah & who knew Tommy was good a cheerleading stuff!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 10, 2015, 12:31:43 am
Good one Bree. You guys make this board entertaining. I think we are all finishing up. Who is left to finish? Me, then Cal then Rosie


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 10, 2015, 12:57:31 am
Tommy the Royals came back at the end....this town really needs them to go the distance. It was so fun last year when they went to the World Series, and the Chiefs....well, they are getting a little extra practice with the high school team down the street right now,,,,maybe the practice will help them win at least one more game this season! Oh, they are horrible



Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 10, 2015, 01:11:45 am
Oh scout,
I'm not on the countdown yet. I'm 4 weeks to go this Thursday. Don't forget Marianne she's about 2-3 weeks behind me. 2/3 of the wY? Not bad? Getting there. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 10, 2015, 01:13:57 am
Bree,
Love that song. Love the proclaimers. When I was in Scotland, we saw their house. Big deal I know, but it was then in the 80's. I always dance to them too. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 10, 2015, 01:20:45 am
Bree,
Love that song. Love the proclaimers. When I was in Scotland, we saw their house. Big deal I know, but it was then in the 80's. I always dance to them too. Cal :)

Don't know that group.  But I like their music!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 10, 2015, 09:57:44 am
Cal, yes, I was just flipping through partinats on this particular thread and almoast everyone is finished except 4. Marianne, Cal, Rosie and myself.  Considering how long you have had hep,,,,4 weeks is your countdown...lol


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 10, 2015, 12:38:03 pm
Hi all, my hepc dr. sent the appeal for 12 wk tx instead of the 8 they approved yesterday. I have 20 more pills before it is settled I guess. I am not stressed at all because it's out of my hands & I think it will all work out .Today is a beautiful day in florida...the heat has let up just a little. Have a good one everybody!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 10, 2015, 12:59:44 pm
Rosie, don't stress about it, I have found that once the word approval is printed, the pharmacy company moves fast. You could even call them, and they will fed x the refill. You will probably have the refill in your hands Monday or Tuesday. Glad that got worked out for you


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 10, 2015, 01:24:51 pm
Hi scoutdoy, Patient Advocate Network & Mayo Clinic on my side so it will get done I think. Dr. said because of my fibroscan she wants 12wk tx ...viral load goes up & down & should not be a criteria for the duration of treatment..I like her alot!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 10, 2015, 01:49:51 pm
Sounds like you're in good hands, Rosie.  And big smile again on your undetected status!  It really does sound like the 12wk approval is in the bag, if I read your post correctly.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: drummerman on October 10, 2015, 01:53:31 pm
I just had to modify my profile!!! UNDETECTED!!!!!

Congrats Rosie!

dm
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 10, 2015, 02:06:38 pm
Thanks Drummerman, I have been feeling bad for you in the insomnia dept. I can only take a day of that or I am horrible to be around. I do know that camomile tea works for me & there is kava tea too but I don't do right now that because it affects the liver..sounds like the Dr. has armed you with the big guns so glad you slept well . It's just amazing to be getting cured ...it still feels unreal !
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: drummerman on October 10, 2015, 02:19:07 pm
I think I am getting over it.  Slept all night last night.  Have only taken Ambien twice and it was a half pill both times.  Woke up after about 3 hours of sleep both times.

Anyway, I think the insomnia is letting up!

dm
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 10, 2015, 02:34:38 pm
Good to hear that!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 10, 2015, 04:26:50 pm
Bree, your right on the fire trucks. I can't get the damm stove out without disconnecting the gas line...eeegadds I am about as mechanical as a rock too....I guess I will have to put aside my bitchiness and ask my soon to be ex husband to come help me. He will, but will be gloating the whole time that I really do need him...LOL

Scout, how did that all work out?
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 10, 2015, 04:35:19 pm
Hey gnatcatcher...it worked out good... Had a nice breakfast...got my pill....cleaned under the stove for awhile and took a nap!! All good...lol


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: gnatcatcher on October 10, 2015, 04:59:40 pm
That's a relief! Glad you can use your oven without subjecting that expensive gem to a temperature >= 86 degrees.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 10, 2015, 05:13:55 pm
I didn't use the oven just to be on the safe side until I got it...I don't think one pill really would have made a big difference..but just for the sheer cost of it we got it, and I found out that I really need to move the stove out and clean under it more often. It was pretty gross. Lol


Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 10, 2015, 05:46:18 pm
Hi Bree, great bands of the 80s. Love em.


Biggest hit.


https://www.google.com.au/#q=the+proclaimers+500+miles.     Cal  :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 10, 2015, 05:52:02 pm
Hi scout,
Yes there's only a few if us? I wonder where all the Viekarians are?

Glad you got your diamond back! Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 10, 2015, 05:53:54 pm
I only got 3 hours sleep last night. I feel buzzy. Yuk day ahead! Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 11, 2015, 12:36:02 pm
I'm sorry Cali girl :(

No sleep on VK + Ribas just blows.

Bless you with a great nights or days rest today!

<3 Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 11, 2015, 12:58:40 pm
Sleepless in Florida too.coffee is king.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 11, 2015, 08:00:36 pm
Hi Marianne and Rosie,
I slept really well last night, it seems that way if you blow off sleep one night I catch up the next. Sweet sleep , how beautiful thou art! Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: drummerman on October 11, 2015, 08:12:35 pm
true that.
dm
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 11, 2015, 08:59:12 pm
Well that would be sweet to want to lay down & just doze off!all day tired ..night fall wide awake...at least I have the forum buddies!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 11, 2015, 11:24:35 pm
Rosie,
Yes and here we are!Cal :-[
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 12, 2015, 02:45:32 pm
Sorry no sleepy's girls!!! That's the worst!


BIG GIANT ALASKAN SIZED (((HUG)))
<3 Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 12, 2015, 07:00:27 pm
Thanks Marianne,
The not sleeping didn't hit till week 7 for me. I thought I'd escaped it. No I hasn't.....Cal yawn  :'(
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 12, 2015, 09:16:09 pm
Yay Cali girl!

Another thing to look forward too :D Lol :D

I hope you get a good nights nod tonight!

<3 Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 12, 2015, 10:21:14 pm
Glad to see the forum carried on without me!  :)  I noticed this thread split into 3 pages!!!  Pretty cool... people want to finish strong and stay positive, plus we are quite the communicators!

Busy weekend for me... all good.  Two events, one at a private waterfall, the other at a beach.  Dogs to the doggie park...walked a few miles here and there.

Today, walked with friend, chiropractor, farmer's market (fresh salad, yum).

Went to library, copied down notes from an awesome book.  This is my kind of life.

Oh yea, I have to remember to get some work in there too! 

I'm not peak every moment, but never mind.... I just want to say... I think this post thing is going to work out quite nicely!!!  Hang in there everybody and plan for the best!  That's what I'm doing!

Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 12, 2015, 10:24:52 pm
You have a dream life, Bree!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 12, 2015, 10:29:57 pm
yep, I dreamed it!  (I'm just telling you the good parts)... seems to be all I want to focus on at the moment!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 12, 2015, 10:47:42 pm
You've just shared the secret to a happy life Bree my dear! :D <3 <3 <3 Mairanne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 12, 2015, 11:00:31 pm
You've just shared the secret to a happy life Bree my dear! :D <3 <3 <3 Mairanne

Yea, it's a delicate balance between "keeping it real" and still focusing on the good stuff.... or maybe that is what's real. hmmmm
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 13, 2015, 12:00:02 am
I think that Life is good, maybe we've forgot that. Or were just to unwell (and didn't know it) to feel it. But the second chancers have a lot to look forward too. Thanks Bree gorgeous girl. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 13, 2015, 12:51:57 am
I think that Life is good, maybe we've forgot that. Or were just to unwell (and didn't know it) to feel it. But the second chancers have a lot to look forward too. Thanks Bree gorgeous girl. Cal :)

Thank you Cal... it's challenging to "unhook" from what has become so familiar to us, and it's also worth it to create a new way of looking at the world.  (easy for me to say, I'm not on riba). ha
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 13, 2015, 06:34:01 pm
Hi Bree,
Yes ribas certainly taint the process. I like your phrase "challenging to unhook from what  become so familiar to us " it explains getting stuck and not moving forward. It's not that easy to do when you've only known illness for so long. I think anyone who thinks it's going to be hearts and flowers post tx is delusional, it will take some work from the person. This may mean some professional help, or just deciding to change and leave the old ways behind. Easy for some not for others. Cal  :-\
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 13, 2015, 08:35:49 pm
Hi Bree,
Yes ribas certainly taint the process. I like your phrase "challenging to unhook from what  become so familiar to us " it explains getting stuck and not moving forward. It's not that easy to do when you've only known illness for so long. I think anyone who thinks it's going to be hearts and flowers post tx is delusional, it will take some work from the person. This may mean some professional help, or just deciding to change and leave the old ways behind. Easy for some not for others. Cal  :-\

You bring up a good observation.  I too, was one, who relapsed.  Causes one to be cautious about too much optimism.  This time, I have to believe and have every reason to believe ... last time, I was not in a good place... this time, I'm ready and in a different place.  Plus we have treatments that actually work!  For sure, it's an adjustment, it may not be hearts and flowers, but we can start on creating new patterns of wellness and lifestyle.

I keep feeling like I need to stop and rest.  (old pattern).  Maybe I do need to rest, but hopefully I can start to listen to my body differently and what it's really telling me not because of the habit I had created out of necessity to pace myself so much.  It's like I had chronic fatigue for 20+ years.  I don't know... I'm finding my way here... I think there are new opportunities for life that I had previously boxed myself in out of necessity (real or imagined.)  Interesting exploration though... might be interesting to work through with a therapist.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 14, 2015, 12:20:35 am
Bree, I get therapy every time you post!  I have been thinking about what things I will do to challenge myself when this is over.A trainer to get me back in fighting shape !!!!

Maybe some more volunteering & gardening.Whatever we do we will be better having gone through this darkness.I really thought I was toast 5 years ago.Skies the limit!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 14, 2015, 02:21:34 am
Bree, I get therapy every time you post!  I have been thinking about what things I will do to challenge myself when this is over.A trainer to get me back in fighting shape !!!!

Maybe some more volunteering & gardening.Whatever we do we will be better having gone through this darkness.I really thought I was toast 5 years ago.Skies the limit!!!!

Thanks Rosie! I really feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders.  A new sense of freedom.  I'm taking it one step at a time.  It's almost like overwhelm.  We've all been through so much.  It's interesting to not have to be so laser focused of getting and taking treatment.  Like there's so much more to life.   We're lucky to live in this day and age and what a gift we have been given!  (I know it doesn't feel like it every minute but deep down, I know it.) 8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 14, 2015, 05:28:12 am
You bring up a good observation.  I too, was one, who relapsed.  Causes one to be cautious about too much optimism.  This time, I have to believe and have every reason to believe ... last time, I was not in a good place... this time, I'm ready and in a different place.  Plus we have treatments that actually work!  For sure, it's an adjustment, it may not be hearts and flowers, but we can start on creating new patterns of wellness and lifestyle.

I keep feeling like I need to stop and rest.  (old pattern).  Maybe I do need to rest, but hopefully I can start to listen to my body differently and what it's really telling me not because of the habit I had created out of necessity to pace myself so much.  It's like I had chronic fatigue for 20+ years.  I don't know... I'm finding my way here... I think there are new opportunities for life that I had previously boxed myself in out of necessity (real or imagined.)  Interesting exploration though... might be interesting to work through with a therapist.

Hi Bree,
Funny you should say that you were in a bad place last tx, because I was in a great place and gob smacked when I relapsed. This time around, well you've exposed me, I am not as trusting in the process. I argue with myself all the time. My Doctor has told me to let it go and I am trying. However, I do think the drugs are great, it's proven, I am following the guidelines pedantically. and keep glimpsing a life without HCV. I am trying I promise! But what I was actually trying to say was that you are unhooking from the past and that is not an easy thing to do. We've all live with this for so long. The examples you give are perfect, pacing yourself. Am I tired yet? I should be? It's all new ground. Luckily you have a mentally healthy attitude to it all Bree and I shall learn a lot from you. Which is why I think your post tx thread is a great idea. I find your posts exhilarating and want to be a person who is open to new patterns of wellness and lifestyle.
I am normally an optimistic person, have been all my life, I want to be reintroduced to her again. I know she's there, my son said last week "It's good to have you back mum" and a girlfriend who I had lunch with said she could see the old Cal coming through heaps in our laughing and enjoying each others company. I know I will get there again. But I need to do some more hard work (rats). Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 14, 2015, 11:20:47 am
Cal, yours sons insightful comments speak the world of you both! He knows you are so not letting this get to you for long. I just totally understand this caught in between the "real world" we are experiencing. We think we are getting cured but don't want to be too extatic " just in case". I have people asking me all the time  "How are you?" The truth is I don't know!!! I feel good till I don't ...why do I have to lay down one day & the next day I am superwoman? It sucks to be in between but that is where we are & it will have to do for now. You guys are just the best & don't forget for all the bad stuff we are right behind you & need to hear it! You have pearls of wisdom coming out all the time. God bless Cal's son!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 14, 2015, 06:56:12 pm
Hi Rosie,
Yes my sons comments were certainly holding up a mirror to me and it excited me to think I could be me again. But then doubt breaks in like a thief and tells me don't get too carried away yet? I wonder sometimes if ill believe the 12 week EOT Tests if I SVR!  Negativity is, like Bree astutely recognised, a hook, that I get caught on.
Rosie being caught in between describes it so well.

When it gets down to it, I have to trust in the process and get off the organ recital, because it doesn't get me to where I want to be, the old Cal. But thanks for acknowledging how damn tough this tx is in the body and the brain! Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 19, 2015, 05:58:31 pm
 UNDETECTED , UNDETECTED, SVR!!!  WHO IS KICKING HCV'S ASS???? WE ALL ARE!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 19, 2015, 06:02:06 pm
Tommy,
Did you get your results? Congratulations pal! Excellent work, as always. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 19, 2015, 06:16:00 pm
 Cal, Yes indeedy My Dear!!!! Check out the last couple of lines of that awesome signature profile I just updated!!! Good thing I can't post to all forums at once or I would have it plastered everywhere on this Wonderful Web Site!!!!!!
 
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 19, 2015, 06:26:30 pm
Tommy,
Freakin awesome! Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 19, 2015, 06:31:06 pm
Cal, YEEESSSSS, You are correct!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Scoutdoy on October 19, 2015, 06:48:53 pm
Tommy, that is fantastic....Go you!



Go Royals
Scout
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: drummerman on October 19, 2015, 07:40:19 pm
UNDETECTED , UNDETECTED, SVR!!!  WHO IS KICKING HCV'S ASS???? WE ALL ARE!!!!

Congrats Tommy!!

dm
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 19, 2015, 08:03:48 pm
Tommy, Tommy, Tommy!  :)

I feel the earth move under my feet....  Hip Hip Hooray!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 19, 2015, 08:34:59 pm
  Bree, Not to worry, it's not an earthquake or volcanic eruption! Just My big ole' butt still trying to dance and the floor attacked Me!!!
  DM, Thanx there buddy. I truly appreciate it!
 
  Scout, You next!!!! GO YOU and the Royals!!!!
   Cal, BOTH of My daughters sent me the same text as You!!! And My surly Son actually said It!!!! Amazing!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 19, 2015, 08:51:08 pm
Tommy,
Your kids sound like very intelligent people! Cal 8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 19, 2015, 09:01:33 pm
   Good one Cal!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 19, 2015, 09:18:06 pm
GOOOOOO TOMMY!!!!

Congratulations, felicitations and good-on-yous!!!

<3
Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Rosie13 on October 19, 2015, 10:13:08 pm
Tommy, very very cool! You have single handed kicked Hep c's ass & lifted our spirits all at the same time! I will always be grateful for the smile you put on my stressed out face.Please write a book & I'll stand in line to buy it.CELEBRATE!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 19, 2015, 11:13:23 pm
 Hey Rosie , Thanx, You & Marianne are right there in the home stretch. Single handed I think not. To many of You guys out there to claim that one. Waiting on Your good news.
 Hello Marianne, My little Alaskan Loony Toon, LOL. FELICITATIONS???? That almost sounds nasty!!!!! Hope You guys are doing O.K.! Been missing out on all the Haps here lately, but trying to get caught up.

 HERE IS WISHING YOU ALL A HEAPIN' HELPIN' SERVIN' OF UNDETECTED EOT WITH ALL THE FIXINS' AND LAGNIAPPE!!!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 20, 2015, 02:37:26 am
Tommy,
Good to have you back to stir the pot a bit over here, We get a bit stagnant without your madness (no insult intended!) Cal 8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: byebyeC on October 20, 2015, 02:05:56 pm
Naught naughty Tommy!!!! :D :D D: D:

So, then,a call goes out from Marianne and Perci to my forum buddies! One of the many perspicacious folks on here can verbally wrap your knuckles!...

Now, you may proceed to making similar comment about "perspicacious", lol!

Double order of prozac for two please?... :D

<3 Marianne
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 20, 2015, 02:41:43 pm
More congrats on this thread then!   8)  You go Tommy!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 20, 2015, 05:00:10 pm
 Yea, it gets like that when it's hot down here in Texas, Have to wring My shirt out it so wet with that stuff!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 20, 2015, 05:38:36 pm
Marianne,
Excellent word. I had to look it up!  Cal :-[
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 21, 2015, 08:41:03 am
 Do I sense a vituperative attack coming on??????
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 21, 2015, 06:46:24 pm
Tommy, you'd get chucked off the forum for doing that! Cal :o
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 21, 2015, 07:32:05 pm
No kidding, excellent word!  You actually have to bare your teeth to say it correctly. 
(Ya'll just tried that, amirite?  ;D)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: edman300 on October 21, 2015, 09:07:30 pm
im on viekira pak, but we are all fighting the same beast. I have 18 days to go and I gotta tell you all I am so excited, I feel like a kid in a candy store. at 6weeks vl= not detected. I am so looking forward to ( I love how you put it) not feeling the usual abnormal. Been kinda wiped out with lots of muscle pain and cramps but NOTHING LIKE INTER AND RIBA. Im so thankful for the chance to live the ( new normal) I can hardly wait for eot. thx to all for tons of encouragement along the way.
God bless and death to all the dragons out there
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 22, 2015, 04:06:17 am
im on viekira pak, but we are all fighting the same beast. I have 18 days to go and I gotta tell you all I am so excited, I feel like a kid in a candy store. at 6weeks vl= not detected. I am so looking forward to ( I love how you put it) not feeling the usual abnormal. Been kinda wiped out with lots of muscle pain and cramps but NOTHING LIKE INTER AND RIBA. Im so thankful for the chance to live the ( new normal) I can hardly wait for eot. thx to all for tons of encouragement along the way.
God bless and death to all the dragons out there

Way to go Edman300!  I'm over 3 weeks post and loving my new life!  I am still pinching myself!  (I have to be careful with that pinching thing as I bruise easily  :))
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: edman300 on October 22, 2015, 10:44:01 am
Awesome to hear your news. Can you feel the difference already from how you felt before treatment?
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: slats1056 on October 22, 2015, 12:20:44 pm
 Else. You know everyone did!!! They would be lying out their butt if they say they didn't!!!! That's what made Me choose it!!! You say it , You feel it , You sound it out , THEN You wonder what the HELL it means!!!! LMFAO!!!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 22, 2015, 01:30:47 pm
Awesome to hear your news. Can you feel the difference already from how you felt before treatment?

Yes, absolutely!  I don't know how much of it is in my mind... I have more spring in my step, I can do more without having those "rest days", my eyes are clearer, I feel cured.  I still have lag times or need to take it easy times but it's not the same as before... I'm happier and doing my best to listen to my body.  Yep, it's a good thing!
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: edman300 on October 22, 2015, 01:41:19 pm
Thank you for your feedback. I am so looking forward to not feeling like a zombie
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 22, 2015, 02:24:27 pm
In retrospect, that's exactly it isn't it?  Feeling like a zombie.

Those days will be over for you Edman!  8)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: BillT on October 22, 2015, 02:50:35 pm
Afternoon all.I'm on day 6 now and I can't wait to join all of you that have moved to new heights.I'm not really having any sides so I'm felling blessed.A little insomnia but that's about it right now.I'll get my lads done next Wednesday (12 days) because my doctor will want them when I go in Friday.I have some things to do this week and next week but I'll be around.I think I'm going to need a bigger dictionary.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: BillT on October 22, 2015, 02:52:15 pm
Obviously that was labs.I hate autocorrect.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: KimInTheForest on October 22, 2015, 03:09:42 pm
Obviously that was labs.I hate autocorrect.

And here I was savouring the many possible meanings of "I'll get my lads done next week."

kim ;)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Else on October 22, 2015, 03:11:32 pm
Obviously that was labs.I hate autocorrect.

LMAO!!!  And sometimes I love autocorrect!  Good one.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: BillT on October 22, 2015, 03:18:33 pm
I lived in Ireland from 2004(when I finished the Pegintron)until 2009. :)I might have typed lads and just not paid attention.
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Bree on October 22, 2015, 05:33:21 pm
Edman, Yes, us former Hepc'ers could have filled the cast of the zombies on the Walking Dead and wouldn't even have to act!  ha.

Bill T, you will be amazed when you get your first lab results!  I'm sure it will be UND or very close and on it's way...
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 24, 2015, 12:10:18 am
Hi Edman,
Welcome, I'm a zombie on week 10 of 12 (or maybe another month TBA) Zomboid state gets better. Cal :)
Title: Re: Nearing EOT - Finishing Strong and Staying Positive!
Post by: Cal on October 24, 2015, 12:11:11 am
Bill,
Never to late to check your lads! (I had ifn too???) Cal