Money Laundering, Feelings of Apathy, and Lots and Lots of Sleep
I’m going to make this a quick entry tonight as I don’t feel like writing too much. I’ve been pretty tired all weekend and have caught up on a lot of sleep. I started my new Raptiva treatments Thursday (yes, I have psoriasis) and had to learn how to inject myself. The nurse was very nice to work with, especially when she asked me to drop my trousers 
, but as she was instructing me on the proper way to stick myself, all I kept thinking about was this dialogue from Pulp Fiction (one of my favorite movies):
[taps Mia's chest]
Lance: You’ve got to pierce through that. So what you have to do is, you have to bring the needle down in a stabbing motion.
[demonstrates]
Vincent: I-I gotta stab her three times?
Lance: No, you don’t gotta f*cking stab her three times! You gotta stab her once, but it’s gotta be hard enough to break through her breastplate into her heart, and then once you do that, you press down on the plunger.
Vincent: What happens after that?
Lance: I’m kinda curious about that myself.
I even asked the nurse if I had to bring my hand down in a stabbing motion….heh heh
I don’t know how I am ever going to get by giving myself an injection every week, but for what this stuff costs, I need to figure something out. There are supposed to only be a couple of initial side effects (nausea, chills, aches, etc) but as of Friday afternoon, I was still fine. For some reason, it all hit me Friday night and I felt really crappy really quickly. I ended up putting on some sweats and shivering in bed for a couple of hours until I finally felt better. I was able to chat with a friend of mine during that time so it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Since this first time was only a conditioning dose, I can’t wait for this weeks first full dose!