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Together We Will Prevail

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~The Cloud Fantasy~ By: Chuck

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16248.1   Good morning my friends, As often happens in life, I recently found myself thinking back to those days of treatments. Even though I had a relatively short tx (16 weeks), the thing that struck me the most was how the whole experience can seem so endless. We just get tired of feeling like crap all the time. Sure, there’s things we can do to ease the sides, but as far as I know, no one has come up with a way to completely eliminate them and as such, the way we feel during treatments is just a part of the overall experience. A sad fact and yet true. The second thing that struck me is how I remembered time. At times it felt like there was no real thread to time. Just a seemingly endless present with that constant nagging headache and those wonderful mornings after the shot day. Kind of like the hangover without the fun of creating it. That’s why it was important to me to celebrate the end of each week. It was the one time that I could clearly see that yes, time was passing

The Lighthouse Through The Storm "OOB"

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16229.1   Good morning all, I hope things are well with you all. We had a massive thunderstorm come through the other day. Just a single giant cell that came over and dumped a good three inches of rain in a half an hour along with a bunch of hail. The high winds and lightning just added to the effect. And then as the storm moved off and the sun peaked out, a beautiful double rainbow appeared off in the distance, shimmering in the newly found sun. It reminded me of just how small we humans are when it comes to nature. Thing is, our universe lives within our own perceptions. It’s probably the only way we could stay sane. After all, just thinking of the vastness of nature is a hard concept to grasp. This is why in a way we create our own environment around us. We cope with as much as our brains will allow us to cope with. I think when something like a diagnoses for hepatitis C hits us that we close our universe even more tightly around us. This isn’t really a bad thing. It’s just s
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