Digital Root 9

Mud glorious mud! My bike New Years Day 2007.

2007 - 2+7=9...

Happy New Year to all & everyone........well mostly all & everyone at any rate (I don't know all or everyone).

So.........What a way to start off 2007 eh! A three hour bike ride in the sun with your best friend up on Holmbury Hill! Was it muddy? Yes! Was it hot & sweaty? Yes! Did Lee crash at the bottom of "Barry Knows Best" and go over his handlebars and land smack on his palms & Knees in the road just as a car was coming? Yes! He actually waited for the car that was coming to drive into & over him.......That's how close the car was! Fortunately they must have seen us bombing it down the hill and slowed down. Lee was very lucky indeed! He has a big cut on his knee that was full of dirt and pine needles! The first thing he thought after he realized that he hadn't been killed was wether his bike was alright or not. It was. And we cycled back up to the top and did it again! Nutters or what! I was behind and all I could do was watch...........I wish I had filmed it all;)

Lee & I just minutes before his near death experience!


What a year 2006 was though eh! A very good year considering all the new drugs I have been putting into my precious body. Tonnes of mountain biking all year long with some really great rides during July & August when the weather here in England was a little hot to say the least! I was out every day nearly during those heat waves and was drinking at least 3ltrs of water in 3 hours of cycling! I Loved every minute of it:) I wonder what this new year will be like? There is that hike up Ben Nevis I want to try (or at least one similar) but I really need to be careful here as my ankles are all the time getting more & more damage from walking and I don't want to damage them too much if possible because the damage will be permanent! Cycling just does't have the same negative impact as walking. If I decide that my ankles are just too weak for a 10 hour hike I will do a weeks mountain biking around Fort William and "The Witches Trail" instead. And also I have been thinking about going somewhere for a holiday this year too. Maybe Tunisia again to visit a number of Star Wars filming locations and some very spectacular Roman ruins........whole towns totally deserted for hundreds of years! I have been before back in 2000 but I didn't feel too good due to some awful HIV medication I was taking. So apart from loads more cycling and much more kayaking than I managed last year and a few holidays maybe, the numbers are looking good also. So onto the numerical side of things......Take the year 2007. And the age I will become this Jan.......36. And also the date & time of my 36th birthday........23rd January 07 @ 01:13am too. And the fact that I finish my Hep C tx on the 18th at 23:27 on the 4th day of the week. I caught HIV in 1985 and will celebrate it's 22nd birthday this year. Not forgetting all the Ribavirin tablets I will have eaten too......48wks of Ribavirin (12 containers of 168) comes to 2016 altogether. I am sure the list goes on but add them all together and what do you get? Yes it is getting ridiculous now and I think I ought to stop (just try and stop me;).

So to re-cap;

Year: 2007;- 2+7=9
Age: 36;= 3+6-9
Date & time I will become 36: 23/01/07 @ 01:13;- 23+1+7+1+13=45 - 4+5=9
Date I finish tx & day it falls on: 18th @ 23:27 on the 4th day of the week;- 18+23+27+4=63 - 6+3=9
Caught HIV in 1985 and will have had it 22 years this year: 1985+22=2007 - 2+7=9
Ribavirin tablets consumed: 12 containers of 168 tablets comes to 2016;- 12+168+2016=2196 - 2+1+9+6=9
..............and if you add all those numbers together I can assure you that you will end up with the figure 9.

The reason I am being so numerically anal is because I have this thing for the number 9 (please don't tell number 8;). Eversince I noticed certain numbers no matter how big would always end up as the single number 9. It started off back when I couldn't face the number 13 anymore (I still can't) because the year I got HIV was 85; 8+5=13. Anyway, along came the number 9......I was listening to "The Beatles" quite a lot back then and John Lennons track "Revolution 9" seemed to stick in my mind where the number 9 has been eversince. Talk about O.C.D's. I have had thousands over the years, little ones that have either disappeared or changed into new ones entirely. I have always had them and always will. They have seen me through some quite dark and miserable times & continue to do so! There is a good example of one of my little O.C.D's right here on my Blog.........just take a look at all the times of day that I posted each post. Every one of their digital roots are 9. They are roughly the correct time, I just take it to the nearest figure that adds up to 9. I might add at this point that until the other day I had never even heard of a digital root! I looked up on the Internet and found it that way. I was crap at math's and still am;)

I might write a post about all the numerous kinds of O.C.D's I have had over the years (mainly the way I breathe & numbers). I even had them before I was diagnosed with HIV etc. I used to make this strange noise in the back of my throat resembeling some kind of animal! I wasn't even into double figures age wise! And I used to have these terrible visions wether asleep or awake they would come along and scare the shit out of me! about gigantic numbers passing by my eyes on top of these endless conveyor belts in a room so black and large it was more like being in space without the stars! Another post maybe?

As you may have noticed I have changed the title of my Blog for the new year. I have had a little feedback which is good so I think I will keep it from now on. And a little message to the wonderful Ample; Once "The Mighty C" always "The Mighty C".

So.........this year will see if I have been "cured" of Hepatitis C. This is my main goal I suppose (hope is probably a better word). I won't know for sure until mid-Summer time if it has gone or not. I could find out I still have it on the completion of my Interferon/Ribavirin treatment some time soon after Jan 18th......who knows? If I do fail to kill the virus then I imagine that sometime in the near future I will start another course? But even then I am prepared for that. I may be starting a new course in the Summer instead in that case. I'm not too sure how long one has to wait until they start again? Either way I am ready.
Also in the New Year I will be posting a series of posts called "Yesterday's Pornography" that are made up from entries I made in a written diary I reluctantly kept during my first few months of tx. It (the pad) has been sitting on my coffee table for the whole summer and has been dusted, moved to the side of my desk and then back to the coffee table, dutsed again and not once did I think of posting any of it on my Blog. I just though I wanted to bridge the gap between the start of my Blog and the beginning of tx. Expect #1 soon.
I have made some new friends too during last year. My neighbour's from upstairs Debbie & Graham......Wonderful people to say the least! And a whole bunch of people from "The Hepatitis C" Forum and some very Lovely people who also have Blogs like mine. They know who they are and all I can say is thank you for being there for me and taking the time to read my posts Blog & Forum alike. Regarding the forum, I can't say that I have really "Physically" needed it as such because I just haven't had any side effects to be concerned about.......but I do like to think that I may have given a little inspiration to at least one or two people on there. But what I can say is that the Forum has helped me mentally a great deal during my "trip" through tx and also my "trip" through life in general really. Exactly the same goes to all my fellow & fellowette Bloggers out there who have stuck by me and helped me in ways I can't even begin to explain! This is my life I am posting on a weekly basis and although just a tiny and insignificant life...........hopefully an interesting read;)





Anyway.......I won't go on.

Happy New Year:)



Jason (still The Mighty C)






(C) JPT 2007