Day 2-5

I have lost a few pounds already, I checked a couple days ago and I was down four pounds, but I'm guessing its more by now. Besides that this is the easiest trial ever. We started off with a high dose and no one has reported feeling anything. On top of that we have almost no procedures.

This is what the day consist of, health assessment (which is just them asking how we feel), vitals check (which is blood pressure, heart rate and temp), dosing and finally blood draw. After that nothing for the rest of the day and some days we don't have blood draws. Although there are PK days, but only four throughout the entire study and we already had one of them. Basically PK days are the same procedures as every other day but are repeated throughout most of the day. Although even these days are easy compared to the PK days of the previous study. The only thing about the PK days that sucks is that they draw your blood 11 times and they don't use a catheter. After the first PK day it looked like I had a drug problem, but that's going to be nothing compared to the two PK days that will be back to back. I am going to try to have them do 11 on one arm and 11 on the other for the following day, but that's assuming they hit a vein every time. On that subject they really like a vein on my right arm that is unusually large so they say, although they have never missed on that vein. Still you can only use a vein so many times before it gets really sore. Enough about blood.

I spend most of the day in a kind of routine, which is essentially just moving from one activity to another before it gets boring. I'll either brush my teeth before or after breakfast depending on when I wake up. After that I'll read for at least an hour. Right now I am reading Save the Cat and I am more than half way through. I already finished Franny and Zooey. After reading I'll catch up on my words with friends games. Followed by a long shower, long partly because the time slots are in 30 min increments, but mostly because there is no rush. Also I blast some music from my phone which I have just outside the shower curtain. After that I either go back to sleep or surf the internet. I might also get an episode of a show or a movie in there before lunch depending if I go back to sleep or not. If I don't go back to sleep I will eventually take a nap later in the day. After lunch the day will consist of alternating between the internet and watching streaming Netflix, especially now that I beat Portal 2. I'm guessing my days wont change much so I will devote more of my next post to my thoughts on the people around me.