So quite a bit has happened over the past few day. On day 3, Gary got confused and took his midnight dose three hours early. We are from Vermont and we have direct TV in our RV. That is connected to the TV in our bedroom. As the shows are based on the eastern time zone, we left the clock by the TV set to EST. Well, that is three hours ahead of Arizona time currently. When Gary saw the clock in there as 12:30 am, he thought it was time for his Telaprivir and went ahead and just took the dose, not with 20 g of fat and did not even think about telling me about it, just took it! I was in the kitchen putting the trail mix recipe together and when I was done, I said to Gary that I had finished the recipe and I had his portion all measured out for his midnight-30 dose. He said that I was a little late as he had just taken his dose 10 minutes ago. Unfortunately I freaked a bit. I was just really scarred that this would cause so many problems. The doctors and all support people for this treatment beat it into your head to MAKE SURE you take the Telaprivir 8 hours apart at the same time each day. So I called the hot line at Incevik and a nurse called us right back with in 25 minutes. She assured us that all was fine. This was not something he should do often, and he may have some side affects, but just keep an eye on them and it will be ok. Basically she calmed a hysterical wife down very well!! LOL
Onto day 4, nothing terrible is happening yet. Gary is tired and already tired of eating so much fat. I am working help him find a menu that will help him want to eat! This will cause some difficulties for us along the way, I can tell, but we will figure it out like always~!
On to Day 5! Which just happens to be the 4th of July!! Gary has still not experienced anything too difficult. He said if this is the worst of it, he would be fine! The worse part for me are his moods. As a very gentle man, he says some very hurtful things to me. I just let them roll of my shoulders or I give it right back to him. I can not tell myself how I am going to react to some of his words. . . until after the fact!
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