Just a quick update today. I’m not feeling very well. In spite of a promising start on interferon, I’ve actually been having worse symptoms as days have gone on. For example, I have a persistent hoarse cough, not sure if this is due to the medication or if it is something I caught. My muscles constantly feel like I’ve just finished a twenty mile run. My right ear has swollen up and the skin on and around it has turned scaly. Oddly, the skin around my ear scrapes off in thick chunks like warm wax. Geez, if this were a comic or a sci-fi movie, my exposure to radiation would have given me some cool mutant super powers. But here, I find that I have been converted into Big Melting Ear Man. And that is just plain not cool.

Shall I go on? I did not sleep one minute last night. That isn’t a figure of speech. I mean I laid in bed all night waiting to sleep and then my alarm went off. And now this morning, I find I have lost all sense of taste. Everything tastes like sand, except for a green apple I tried. It tasted like poison.

It is taking all of my will power not to fall into despair. And I’m trying to find some humor in the situation, but damn. This just isn’t funny.