Gregory M. Ledet

Yeah, it’s been a while since I’ve posted.  I’ve been busy as hell, not to mention feeling like hell.  The treatment has really been taking it’s toll on me.  I guess you can say that the interferon has killed off all the bad stuff and now it’s starting to kill off the good stuff, namely me.  Here’s a little update on what’s been going on.

I’ve been working hard on trying to get Le’ Day Consulting up and running, but it’s been hard with the treatment.  I’ve got a couple of clients out there, but it’s a little slow.  On top of that, the treatment has everything in my system running low.  My white blood cell count is 2.4.  The normal range is 4.8 – 10.8.  So basically, I’m immunocompromised.  My red count is on the low side; 4.23 and a normal range of 4.60 – 6.20.  Hemoglobin and Hematocrit are both low as well.  The only things that aren’t low are my AST and ALT.  My AST is 59 and my ALT is 79, which are better than what they were last month.  They were 78 and 83 respectively.  My liver is getting better, but my body is falling apart.

The virus is still undetectable in my body!  That is excellent news!  Let’s just hope that I can achieve SVR and not have to worry about this crap again once I’m done with treatment.  I’ve been through 17 injections now and 16 weeks of treatment, so hopefully I only have 8 more weeks to go and I’m done with this.  I’ve made it this far, so there’s no way in hell I’m going to give up now, no matter how bad I’m feeling!

On a completely different subject… THE SAINTS ARE WORLD CHAMPS!!!!  I still can’t believe it!  The USA set a Winter Olympic record of 37 metals and Canada set a record with 14 GOLD metals, so both Jasmine and I are very happy with our countries right now.  I’ve been throwing around the idea of getting another Anschutz, specifically this one, and start shooting again with hopes that I’d be able to make the Olympic team again.  The only problem is that target rifles are extremely expensive and so is all the travel that you have to pay for to go around the country to competition.  I remember that I had a blast back in 1996 and with shooting, you really don’t need to be 18 years old to keep up with the field.  It’s the only Olympic sport I’d have a shot at making (pun intended).

I find it kinda funny that right before the Saints won the Super Bowl, the northern part of the US had to deal with Snowpocalypse.  Washington DC was under 3 feet of snow in one day, so I guess you can say Hell froze over!  We had a shitload of snow here as well. That Friday of all the bad snow we got 14 inches and over the past 30 days we’ve had about 2½ feet of snow.  That’s set a record for Logan County.  Mad River Mountain, the ski resort here, must have been happy as all hell for all of that show!

Well, that’s about it for now.  The treatment is working, I’m dying, Al Gore is lying, the Saints won, and the USA kicked ass.  Until next time, peace!

-Greg

I never thought I’d live to see the day; the day that the New Orleans Saints make it to the Superbowl.  I’ve waited my entire life for this day!  Hell, I’m at a loss for words right now because I’m just completely overcome with joy!

It was a hard game, but the Saints pulled it off in the end.  One thing that pisses me off though is that no one seems to want to give the Saints any credit.  I’m reading article after article on the internet, along with the comments posted on them, and it’s all Saints bashing saying that the numbers don’t lie and that the Vikings should have easily won that game.  I’ve got news for you people, you can’t win a football game when you can’t hold on to the ball!  I’m also tired already of reading about how the Refs blew 3 calls in overtime and that all 3 that were reviewed should have been reversed.  Well, I’ve got more news for you.  Did you bother to see the first 4 quarters of that game?  The ones where the Saints got hit for 88 yards in penalties to the Vikings 32?  Yeah, how they tried to NOT give Reggie Bush the touchdown that was obvious?

What about Joe Buck too?  I was waiting for him to drop to his knees and start praying to Farve.  He could not possibly have been any more unprofessional than he was tonight.  A journalist is supposed to be unbiased and all Mr. Buck did all night was sit there and talk about Farve like he was willing to have his baby.  After the game I switched over to ESPN and the Farve love continued.  No one wants to give the Saints any credit.  I guess that even though we started the season 13-0 means that we really suck.

And people, don’t give me that “the Vikings won on paper” bullshit.  Higher stats /= winning the game.  Sure, most of the time the team with the most yards wins, but once again, the Vikings had 5 turnovers to the Saints 1.  We were better where it counted and the Vikings played like a Pop Warner team!

So, congratulations to the New Orleans Saints and to all the rest of you in Who Dat Nation!  In 2 short weeks we go to Miami!