I asked Anna, and she’s not feeling quite ready to write yet. Watch her space, though. I’m sure she’ll put something up there soon enough. I think it’ll be helpful for people to see how much she’s changed in the face of everything that’s happened. It might make some of you realize how universal your recent experiences were. We’re not all so different, you know? I think the virus has made a lot of people realize that, at least post-treatment.
The testing went well yesterday. When I volunteered, I didn’t think—I wasn’t sure whether I was really comfortable being a guinea pig for these people. The “clean room,” the bouts of lost time, the staring at the wall, these factors were extremely uncomfortable for me, at first. I felt like, look, I finally kicked this thing and all I want to do is get out of this place and never set foot in a hospital again, but that’s not really the way it goes. Even if I hadn’t agreed, I’d surely have been marched in for follow-up tests, so, may as well do something meaningful with my time there. That’s how I’m trying to look at it. If this testing—or this blog—can help people, then it’s worth my time and energy. More later. Dinnertime.
October 24, 2008 at 2:11 am |
What kind of testing are they doing on you anyways? Are they testing different drugs on you and stuff? Hopefully you haven’t had any bad reactions. This all seems awfully risky but I guess with the current situation that you are in you don’t have much of a choice.