Perusing the blogs ...
I should have perused the blogs on Monday, then perhaps I would not have fallen victim to ... well, whatever it was I fell victim to.
One thing it does is remind you that all who do treatment face similar issues, particularly in regard to the side effects. This is important because sometimes you feel that the treatment becomes an excuse for being in a poor mood, depressed, fatigued, experiencing Ribi-rage, etc. Because of that, I've decided to rob Ron's list of links to other blogs and post it on mine. Perhaps someone who stumbles upon mine will find others' beneficial as well.
I know I do.
Today has been a good day; again, fairly energetic with none of the flu-like symptoms that plagued me on Monday and Tuesday. I had lunch with a close friend whom I called in the midst of the war on Monday and he immediately suggested we get together. He echoed the words of a clergy friend of mine: Don't make any heavy life-changing decisions while on treatment.
Wise counsel.
Grace and peace ...
One thing it does is remind you that all who do treatment face similar issues, particularly in regard to the side effects. This is important because sometimes you feel that the treatment becomes an excuse for being in a poor mood, depressed, fatigued, experiencing Ribi-rage, etc. Because of that, I've decided to rob Ron's list of links to other blogs and post it on mine. Perhaps someone who stumbles upon mine will find others' beneficial as well.
I know I do.
Today has been a good day; again, fairly energetic with none of the flu-like symptoms that plagued me on Monday and Tuesday. I had lunch with a close friend whom I called in the midst of the war on Monday and he immediately suggested we get together. He echoed the words of a clergy friend of mine: Don't make any heavy life-changing decisions while on treatment.
Wise counsel.
Grace and peace ...
3 Comments:
Buzz,
I have sent my email under different subjects about six times but your spam filter doesn`t like me. On Ron`s blog you say how tx has affected you spiritually and this concerns you. I knew from day one that my spiritual life would change. The ribavirin takes you into the flesh, but in a strange way, not sensual.
I had piles of books I wanted to read and some writing I wanted to get done, but none of it has happened.
The tx has changed my relationship with God. I haven`t had a standard “quiet time” for weeks, but have entered into a new level of relationship with Him. It is strange, and at first I was worried about it because it goes against all the standard practices, but it is working out.
The ribavirin is definitely a hallucinogenic and as such will have spiritual sides to it.
I felt the Lord warning me before tx that I was going into unchartered territory and I have found that to be true. We cannot get away from the fact that we are body, mind and spirit and that you cannot separate these out. I have definitely gotten places with God that I could not have gotten in any other way. I know we are on very dangerous ground here and I realise we must test all subjective experience by Gods Blog, but I hope I may have maybe helped in putting your mind at rest on your expectations on tx.
May the peace of god be a garrison around your mind while going through this experience.
Paul.
Pastor Buzz
Adding the links on my blog to yours is not ‘robbing’ – that sounds like sin!
To me, adding links to your page enhances the benefits readers might gain from your experience, my experience and the experience of others on treatment. Share and celebrate – the bad days as well as the good, I say.
As we have both said before this is a journey – these drugs do stimulate in me emotions I would ordinarily feel but with such intensity and without the ‘cause’ (irritation where I would ordinarily be upset) that it is sometimes really hard to stay in control or equilibrium. Part of the challenge of the journey!
All the best to you in the rest of your voyage…
Ron
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