New Adjustments
It has been a while again. Now, where was I? I am about 11 days into phase 2. Phase 2 started on my birthday, and it started off feeling like good news. For all that I was frustrated with my insurer over some things they hadn’t paid for, my co-pays on some very expensive drugs are surprisingly manageable. So, I got an injection to last me for 90 days and a bottle of pills, also to last me for 90 days, and the journey began. For the next almost a week, I would wake up every morning, and when Karen said to me, “How are you?“, my response would be, “Nol weirdness so far.“ There was a certain innocence in that. These are important medicines with systemic effects, and those effects take weeks to really take hold. If there had been sudden effects, that probably would’ve been bad. But the fact that there were no sudden bad effects didn’t mean they weren’t going to be any discomfort, any awareness that this was a difficult adjustment. So about a week in, I suddenly started f...