Okay so brag away you Westie and knife me re Swanny GT2 those damned Eagles it’s not the GF yet that last Collingwood vs Eagles GF I drew a cartoon of a magpie eating an Eagle wonder where I put that Ha! I’m happy to share it with you
That’s a SLAB that wave you posted surely not Margies where is it? Its a towie wave for sure. The ripples were head high yesterday here and fun small barrels I don’t do tow in myself hahaaaa geez your posts make me smile GT2
Actually that slab you posted is a good metaphor for interferon erghhhh. I would defs wipe out and I did on peginf lol!!
Have a look at my avatar that’s a couple of weeks ago we are just getting swell after swell in Vicco.
Hey, Tasmania….. If you are in Hobart head down to Shippies because the fellas are towing there like huge waves
I’m fascinated by tow in surfing it’s another league and they seriously risk their lives have a listen to Ross Clarke Jones on it or Greg Noll of course
See what’s happening GT2 once I am wound up on surf I cannot stop! Argh
Anyhoo the thing is how much can you take in wiping out? Surfer Today explains it:

” Big waves are surely heavy. If you want to get an overall weight for your specific wave, you can roughly memorize that a cubic meter of water (1000 liters) weighs one metric tonne (1000 kilograms). How about that?

Example: a 33-foot (10-meter) wave with a falling lip that is 66-feet (20-meters) wide will mean that, if you wipeout, you’ll feel the equivalent of 410 tonnes (410000 kilograms) over your body. That’s the weight of 488 Volkswagen Beetles (1967 model)!

Another example from the average surfer’s perspective: imagine a 20-inch (50 centimeter) thick wave lip, only 3.2 feet wide, in a summer three-foot wave. Total weight? A solid 500 kilograms (1100 pounds).”

My preference is 3-6 foot and they are more than capable of holding me down if the swell period is over 14 seconds! I don’t wipe out much but I feel it when I do
Love the pic GT2
Not forgetting the Collingwood thing gawd I wish we could rip those Eagles throats out
Cheers and have a great day and Ty for writing back such a fun rsvp
Ariel

Around 2010 I was conducting a beautiful darling childrens choir we sang this. We loved it. When I was diagnosed and then after some dramas started to realise what exactly this HepC was all about this song made every sense.
I’m rather fond of Regina’s songwriting too.

http://youtu.be/sXcjpm5gCg8

Congratulations SVR5 Michael
Wonderful feeling isn’t it
At 6 weeks and three days post EOT I am still a tad tired but Do believe the virus has finally gone
My SVR test was at 4 weeks post EOT and I feel confident so I hope you do too
Next stop our 12 week one eh!
Wishing the very best to you Michael
Congrats again from Ariel keep us posted as you go to SVR 12

Thanks so much Tricia the WHO 44 Pages is read. Took a while to get back to you
I have pulled some platforms for arguing the case for generics
If we look we see it’s the only viral epidemic with an increaaing linear gradient related to deaths by illness.

Then I note the spread and lack of testing etc in Asia and third world countries.

The projections are meagre in tx terms let alone eradication according to WHO objectives. Three mil treated by 2020

Fiscal issues which are our only pitch I feel. The individuals suffering goes without saying. The cost to community I looked at for Australia in earlier writing as I said, but to assess the global cost is difficult.
Generics clearly make these WHO objectives look like Noahs Ark. Our goal in a perfect world is the eradication of HepC.
There are holes here for me to construct my letter.

And

I’m keen for more information I send your links to myself too now Tricia.
Thanks again
When I look at the info from the EASL, and Hazels recent links and the info on here and in the global Hep orgs there’s a lot to pick through to make a very clean argument for generics globally. I have the Gilead vile information on that monopoly of genocidal type mentality. Yuk.
It takes time to construct a good letter especially as I plan to use a new format not using myself as a case study going in, but using a larger sample so I have more reading yet.
Tricia thanks again I will be a busy girl again
I’m glad you popped up here it’s coincidental that I was in conversation re my plans to hit the WHO. My health professionals thoughts were not the UN as well ha! I was thinking of them too
Ariel

Welcome Mike good luck with tx and yes what Mike the other said
From Ariel who is now clear of HepC thanks to FixHepC go for it Mike

Hi Tricia thanks so much for your campaign re WHO and yes a number of meetings are scheduled May is an important date to have a letter in but that agenda I suspect is set so I have planned other ideas too, world Blood Day and World Hep Day are coming up.

I am addressing my personal

letter to the Regional Director his name is:
Dr Shin Young-soo

Under Communicable diseases as James pointed out elsewhere there is zika, ebola etc
no HepC mentioned in the urgent list
However there is this:

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs164/en/
WHO runs World Hepatitis Day as most here would know but just a reminder
So we have the forthcoming meeting but let’s also lobby for July 28

I am very concerned this illness certainly affected my life and my children compromised greatly to help.

My letters are modelled on a case study format; l write my story and then a fiscal story based on Australia’s population and now it’s time to make larger projections, and that’s what I am currently working on. I discussed this with one of my medical team a fortnight ago. She agrees WHO. All my lobbying has included my own details as a case study but this approach will be different as the world as a whole is not middle class Australia.
My pitch will be not as personal going in therefore.

I note all my replies to date have numbers meaning they are kept on file. I lobbied hard re DAAs here U can see the number on the letter I have included a fragment of. I cannot share entire letters for people to use if they thought them worthy of using because of my case study approach it tells too much personal info for a forum. I’m sure that someone can put together a general letter but I like this personal work I do if that makes sense after all I lost five important years others lost more many die.

I’m reading a lot here and a few links you probably have these too everyone but if interested and wanting to talk to people about hepC these may help.
I won’t also post my story in the press last Dec here for privacy reasons. But I did it before the roll out and I guess a lot of people did who like me want to lobby privately so we aren’t posting our links here.

There’s a bit of govt response to my nagging if you have a close look you will read them turning me back toward Gilead and supplying me with the phone number for same. This particular letter is from Minister Leys assistant. It’s proof of reply and that everything is kept, however if anyone thinks they don’t read lobbying they do even if it’s replied to poorly.
Ariel

Well I didn’t mention some other people I have written to. Q and A who I have nagged so much do other Australians think its a good forum you simply log in and fill out a question its all there online.

I write to charity groups too.
Well this is now a matter for the WHO re access for all. Figures wobble around between 130mil and 180 mil diagnosed I read in various articles.

http://www.wpro.who.int/regional_director/regional_directors_report/2015/media/2015_01_dcd_00_complete.pdf?ua=1