A brief return to un-drugged-ness

my liver function was too high, so i am not getting drugs this week.  this was a kind of a let down.  (i am drinking a detox tea to help my liver get ready for its test on monday)

the unexpected silver lining is that i get to feel normal again for the week.

i have an appetite, some energy, and my sense of humor back.

up to this point, i have had absolutely zero appetite, been sleeping 14-16hrs a day, and yawning constantly.  and kind of emotionally ‘flat.’  not that much pizzaz, shall we say. (which is to say, dull and emotionless…)

i started to feel it on tuesday, but it took until wednesday for my appetite to really come back.  around dinnertime i told my mom that i wanted to go out for dinner.  like, i wanted to go out somewhere nice, joking that i only had another five days of enjoying food, before the drugs started again.  she laughed and asked where, and I mentioned this one restaurant Higgins that I had never been to.  turns out they had a gift certificate that had been sitting around for a year, and she made reservations.

i also went for a bike ride with my dad.  just three miles around the fairmount loop.

and i drove the car over to my friend KT’s studio.  first car driving this trip, which is the same as saying first car driving since last thanksgiving (9 months?).  At thanksgiving I scraped the front end of my dad’s car in a parking garage.