Glass half full: Looking for the upsides in Treatment

I wrote this earlier this year, but still relevant today

We are constantly looking at all the negatives that treatment bring to our worlds.

We share all the horror stories on our respective journey's, in the hope that someone will hear us crying out for help, that others will understand the hell we go through on a daily basis or that someone else will benefit from our struggle.

I would like to share some of the positive experiences I have had on treatment, some will say bah there is nothing positive in this, and that may be so for you. I have gained much from this journey and not all of it has been Yuckky.

please note that some of it is quite personal & some of the people will know who they are but i have not named them as they did not share with a view to being posted on FB. (love you)

One of the very first light moments was during my very 1st meeting & conversation with some other Hep C ladies who had done treatment & are a lot more knowledgeable than I am or was, particularly at that time, a great positive was actually meeting and sharing with them in the 1st place, however we were chatting as ladies do about all things Fem and one of those angels made a comment about hair, my ears pricked up and soon discovered that it was not age as i had perceived that was making my hair go straight but TX, went home very happy in the knowledge that I would ' curl up" again.

In my previous life it would be safe to say that I was a fairly impatient person, It has to happen now, get out of the way i will do it myself. Know what I mean? thanks to Tx I am now one of the most patient people I know. It is a gift I will be eternally grateful for.

As a Geminian child of Mercury the communicator and a thinker, I have cursed Tx many times for taking away my capacity for rational thought, for my inability to string a sentence together, for removing my ability for sequential thinking, however in retrospect it has also removed my capacity to think or worry about things that really are meaningless in the grander scheme of things and for this I will also be eternally grateful..

This round of treatment has given me the opportunity examine my life and all that was in it and to see what is really important and what is just crap. It also gave me the strength and courage to educate myself on MY disease.

It has allowed me to touch many peoples lives & support them, and it has brought many wonderful people into my life to support me.

I have made friends because of hep C & treatment that will be my friends until the end theirs or mine whichever comes first.

It has inspired me to speak out and act for myself and for all those who are unable for a plethora of reasons to do so for themselves.

treatment took all that I perceived was important to me, but in return it gave me the gift of freedom, which is allowing me to now live my dream and my life for the first time ever fully for me.

This morning I made myself some food and I ate from my "special" Dinner set ( all the ladies get it), after all if I was saving it for a special occasion what more special occasion is there than me & actually feeling like eating at all. And i drank my juice from Swarvoski cut crystal glasses, in the past reserved for entertaining..

So you see dear ones there is always a positive in everything somewhere, we just have to search harder because the negatives are always so in our faces...

So in this Global week Of awareness let us look at some of those brighter moments as well as all the crap..

So please share some of the positive moments on your journey. and keep this thread going so we don't scare all the people who are thinking about going down this road and show them that we can still laugh, still love, still engage in life and still feel like there is hope for us all and a brighter future..