47th Injection & Cool Dark Places...

One medium potato......tonight.



Just the one injection left now. I am going to miss those little pricks;) Ok, maybe not the pricks, but definitely the late Thursday night routine that is firstly to follow the sounds of my mobile phone and changing the alarm set to 23:15 (from 20:27 previously) to 23:27 then taking out from my fridge the little syringe full of Interferon a needle & a Sterit. I walk back into the living room and place it on the arm of my sofa and wait (usually in front of my trusty Mac)) until the alarm goes off again. The next thing is to change the alarm now to 08:27 for my morning pills. Now with my injection at a suitable room temperature the thing is ready to inject. Sat on either the arm or the long back of my sofa now (on which side depends which side of my body is due for injecting) The area of skin on my side (Love handle basically) is swabbed and left to dry for a few seconds while I attatch the needle to the tiny syringe. I might also add that I always inject topless (calm down ladies;) as it is so much easier without a shirt or something draping in the way. I pinch about an inch of flesh between my thumb & index finger and gently slide the needle at a 45 degree angle into the scampi sized lump. No pain.......it's quite interesting watching the needle disappear the way it does......all the way in until I can't see any metal at all. Then in goes the pretty red plunger, quite slowly (probably about 10 seconds) all the Interferon is invited into my body. Everything and including the air is now inside me. I leave the needle in there for another 10 seconds then pull it all out. With no blood or mark for that matter, I stand up and go back to the kitchen and mark the syringe with the number that it was (47 in this case) and pop it into the box in the cupboard with the other 46.

That's it.

What will I do now? Oh Thursday nights, what will I do?............Exactly....nothing;) Sitting on my computer I expect, writing a post or poem maybe for on here or perhaps checking out the Forum to see what's going on there. Oh, and not forgetting my dreams too. Whatever I will be doing, at least I know that I will feel the same as I always do at this time of day. I can never really explain the way I feel, but when I tried to with my Sister Tania once she said that from what I had said it sounds like what it's like when you are on E. I have never done E but my Sister has in the past. Not a good drug at all!
I know why I feel like this. My HIV drugs are to blame but these feelings are tolerable and I know they will go away by about midnight. It happens just in the evening too. I take a slightly different cocktail in the morning, plus right after my AM pills I go straight back to sleep. I have been getting these feelings for several years now................I'm boring myself just even writing about it.

I was out on my bike last night, just a local ride. I was sitting at my desk playing around with a photo on Photoshop and POW! Power out! Nothing.........pitch bloody black! That's it I thought...........got out my torch and found all my cycling gear, put it on, grabbed my i-pod and went out for a ride (potatoes are fine during power outs; "Store in a cool dark place" is what it says on the bag, so I wasn't too worried about leaving them). It was quite exciting really. All the houses and flats between Kingston Bridge and Teddington Lock but inbetween Broom Rd and the Thames were without power! My lights are pretty good normally but being out in that kind of darkness was a little like being up in the Surrey Hills. Actually, I did notice that Teddington Studios had power and they are down the same road as me. It must be nice if you have your own back up power eh. Like me and my torch;)
Not a bad ride.........quick too & warm but getting cooler again........& about bloody time too! I was back home inside an hour and even when cycling past Teddington Lock & the studios (where "The Office" was filmed) I could see that the electricity was back on where I live. With my potatoes already at peace, I was too now knowing my Interferon & FactorVIII was ok.........& my humus (I'm back eating it again....a nice caralemized red onion flavour), chicken, grapes (they gotta be cold & crunchy like tiny little apples) and my blood red orange juice!

So on to today. Could this have been the most boring day in history since the potato was first invented?.......Let me explain. I have ordered a new digital camera from the internet and they said it will arrive either today or Friday (tomorrow). Well it didn't arrive today, so the whole day was wasted! Now I have the prospect of waiting in all day tomorrow too. Could Friday equal the potato? I do hope not. According to my "special" tracking number I have access to (via the internet) it was with DHL at a Paris airport around 22:36 tonight wating to be shipped out to Heathrow - right by where I live) What I really hope is that it arrives first thing in the morning...........hang on, no not first thing. Perhaps around 11am would be a better time. Before lunchtime anyway. It better be here before 7pm as I am going out to "The Hills" with Lee with our bikes (after a 22 mile drive that is).
I can't wait to see what the camera is like. It has 10 mega pixels and is made by Canon. Where can you go wrong with that eh?

Potatoes aside...........The cold will be along soon you'll see!


Jason

P.s. The potato in the photo (aahh, that rhymes) was actually from my fridge..........Potato fans please don't worry! He is back safely where he lives.........ready for a mashing he he;)





(C) JPT 2007