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HCV Treatment Week 14

It's 4:30AM on a Friday morning (2/17/12) and strangely enough I am wide awake (more or less). I'm still a little wobbly as I am when I wake up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom. I toyed with the idea of simply going back to bed but decided to stay up anyway. So here I am. I am now in the fourteenth week of my Hepatitis C treatment. Administering the medicine has become pretty routine. I rarely miss a Victrelis dose. I had to double up on Wednesday this week on the Procrit and Neupogin injections because I missed the former on Tuesday. Taking two injections back-to-back was no fun. I need to be more cognizant of my injection schedule. I had a transfusion a couple of weeks ago and it made a huge difference in my energy level. I was very anemic beforehand, pale and unable to do anything at all other than lie in bed. The transfusion process takes about five and one half hours for two units. I listen to my iPod throughout. There is nothing else to do. Th...