Gregory M. Ledet

I have slept all damn week long.  Literally.  I can’t think of a time in my life when I’ve slept this much… not even when I was a teenager.  Wednesday night I got really into a new webapp that I was working on and didn’t get to sleep until yesterday at 6am.  I slept until noon and came downstairs only to go back to sleep at 1:30 or so.  I woke up just before 5, went to bed at 8 (no sleeping pills needed) and didn’t wake up until 10:30 this morning.  I had to take a Ritalin just so I didn’t fall asleep again today.  It’s been like this all week.  I sleep and sleep and sleep and I’m still tired.

This is not to mention the lack of appetite.  I’ve been having to force myself to at least eat a sandwich or something everyday just to make sure I have something in my stomach.  I’m getting tired of throwing up and not having anything in my stomach to come out.  It’s too damn painful.  Even the nausea meds aren’t helping as much as I’d like.

I’ve been trying to keep my mind on things other than feeling like complete ass.  I’ve just finished my second mobile webapp, admittedly it’s just another calculator and it looks similar to the first, but there’s a lot of difference in how the back end works.  I’ve already started working on porting it over to the Palm Pre and Pixi, but I’m running into issues with formatting.  I’ll figure it out.

Today’s injection site was the top of my right thigh.  Yes, it sucks.  I took it around 10:30 and I’m already feeling it bad.  I know tomorrow is going to suck royally, but I just need to push through it.

That’s about everything that’s going on right now, so until next time…

I just went upstairs to take my shower for the evening and when I was drying off, I felt pain in my face as the towel went across it.  It almost felt like I had a very bad sunburn on my face.  Once the mirror had cleared, I noticed a very bright red rash on my face.  The picture below really doesn’t show just how red it is (it’s only the shitty camera on an iPhone).  I’ve provided a “before” picture for comparison (click for larger).

Before	After

If you’re thinking “man, that really sucks”, you’re right.  It does suck.  I wish I had a camera and proper lighting to show what it really looks like.  Every time I run my hands across my face, I can feel where I “scratched” for about 45 seconds after, as though my hands were still there.  It goes from my chin to my hair line and is very bad on my chin under my goatee and just above my mustache.

I’ll continue to post any weird things that happen to me on the course of this treatment and I’m going to make videos as often as possible!

***EDIT***

Here’s a new pic, taken about 2 hours after the first and you can start to see the rash on my face getting darker and redder.  I’m starting to itch all over my body and I just took 3 Benadryl to help with the itching and help me sleep. (Click for larger image)

It's starting to get worse