Slow blogging
I have not felt much desire to write for a while. It is a combination of things going on in my life none of it very interesting. My liver seems to be acting up. The tests my doctor has done have been going up and down for a while. I have been taking methotrexate for skin and joint problems. This is a very toxic drug that has a life time recommended dosage. It works very well to keep me from having problems for my problems which are chronic and incurable at the moment. My dosage is well over that limit.
For a while I have been injecting myself as my doctor felt this might be easier on my liver than taking it orally. I guess that has not worked as well as he had hoped. It was easy for me, both quick and cheap and it did not take me long to overcome the initial discomfort of stabbing myself with a needle (intra-muscularly).
I still have lots of questions about my liver. I know that it is an organ that will heal itself over time as it is not like some of the other namby pamby organs that once damaged never seem to get better. But methotrexate is a long lived chemical so it could go on doing damage over time I think at least. I wish my doctor had email so I could pose some of the questions that I have. At least I have the kind of doc who holds nothing back, but you need to also ask the questions as he never seems to have the time to volunteer answers.
The only other treatment that has worked for me in the past is much more expensive as you have to go into the office three times a week. The medicine that you have to take makes you sick to your stomach for hours which really cuts into one’s day. It is a very irritating problem and I have been mulling over my options.
I can just stop taking the methotrexate and hope that I don’t get sick right away. That is the way I am leaning at the moment. If I start having problems I will go back in for treatment I guess. Maybe by then my financial situation may have improved. One can hope for a miracle. Given how generally depressed I am at the moment, adding further depressive stress is not something I am looking forward to.
Actually, my son has been in the process of going into a training program. He is in about the last stage of the application process and so far they seem to think he will do well. If all goes the way we are hoping he should start in September and be working after a month. That would be very good news indeed.
3:01:56 PM 
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