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Sorry, I've been too busy working on my NaNoWriMo blog to post anything here. Maybe I will post a link from this one to the other one at some point, when I have the first draft done. I went to the doctor today and got good news. The interferon seems to be working really well. It's been a long, long time since I've needed a phlebotomy, and I likely won't need one any time soon. The side effects from the interferon have also decreased over the past few months, and I've actually been feeling better lately than I did before I started taking it. That's huge, because I felt pretty shitty when I first started on it. It also seems that there is more published research about the effectiveness of treating MPDs with interferon, and it may soon become the standard here in the US (it's already the standard in Europe).
I got home from the doctor this afternoon, and discovered a phone message from my insurance, saying that I should call right away today, and that it was about my interferon. Apparently, the company that manufacturers the injection pen I've been using for the past 2 years has suddenly stopped making it. There was no explanation for the change. So now, they will ship a powder that I will have to mix up myself. That sounds kinda sucky. The premixed pen was nice because it was pretty much dummy proof. Now I have to worry abut measuring and mixing it properly, and avoiding bubbles in the needle may be more of an issue now, too. I was supposed to gt a shipment of interferon tomorrow, but now because of the change my doctor has to submit a new prescription for it, which will probably delay the shipment by several days.
I have enough to get by until next week, but it would have been a lot easier to coordinate the switch if I'd been informed of the changes a few days earlier. That way I could have actually talked to the doctor about it today in person, and made sure the paperwork got faxed to the insurance before I left the clinic. I searched online just a bit ago and discovered that the discontinuation of the pen has been public since at least last Wednesday. Poo!
Ranked on a 5-point scale:
Inglourious Basterds : 4.75 (added 9/20)
District 9: 4.5 (added 8/29)
Up: 4.5 (not to be confused with What's Up )
The Hurt Locker : 4.5 (added 8/23)
The Hangover : 4.25
Zombieland : 4.25 (added 10/17)
Where the Wild Things Are : 4 (added 10/17)
Star Trek : 4
Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince : 3.75
The International : 3.25
Angels & Demons : 2.75
X-Men Origins: Wolverine : 2.5
Terminator Salvation : 2
Law Abiding Citizen : 2 (added 10/24)
Taken : 1.75

