Thursday Afternoons

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Thursdays are now jab days. What? What you ask, does this mean to you, dear reader? It means that Thursday afternoons are when my Mom does the jab thing with the Pegasys interferon injection and I have to stay, stay, STAY. Stay anywhere, but next to the kitchen table where the light is better and everything is laid out nicely for me to sniff. NO SNIFFING! Gosh, when will she ever learn to calm down. I was only checking out the goods. So this is Thursday afternoon and then tomorrow, Friday, well on Fridays she (that's my Mom) is just a bit slower than usual. Did I tell you how slow she is now? She and I used to play chase around any table in the house. She doesn't play chase now, but maybe when this is all done she'll accept my challenge. She promised me that. I believe her. What I really want to do is to go outside and play basketball with the boys across the street. They're much taller than me, and I don't do anything for very long on two legs. (Did I tell you that I can dance?) I guess basketball would get tiring after while. Chase though ... I could play chase ALL day :)

Nyeh nyeh ...
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A New Beginning

Where shall I begin today? How about … today is the beginning of the 4^th week of treatment for my Mom’s Hepatitis C (which the doctors found while playing out their own version of House). Did you know that you could get it from the blood supply pre-1984, or from a tattoo, or from another IV drug user? Well, a couple of pints and two tattoos (go on, say it 3 times fast), later, here we are – pills twice a day and injections once a week. Worst thing yet though is… (

) no drinking for the full 48 weeks of treatment. The cool thing is that with treatment, my Mom stands a good chance of being cured. This comes with some kind of umbrella drink I believe (or so she keeps saying). What’s an umbrella drink?

So I guess this means we’ll be playing more. I’m always up for that. Always!

Sniffin’ your ears …

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