Farewell Honker
I loved your Tassie Treks blog and wish you a safe journey home
I’m guessing you’re already there is HK home?
My eldest daughter was on scholarship at HK Polytechnic Uni last Semester she loved her six months there.
A wonderful place to live I worked there in 1983 myself! Bet it’s a lot different now.
(I’m presuming now you live there haha.)
Let us all know how you fare with your results on your bloods please
Mine is now UND it is a good feeling
Happies to you
I’m sure you will be back one day for another taste of our beautiful Australia
Love from Ariel

Did you reach Emilio? I can if you need still
Cheers
Ariel
PS I lobbied BMS over two years I have the letters back I wouldn’t talk to them!!!
Have a good day can help to reach Em but guess you have by now?

Ty Sir
Well that’s a LOT more compo than my friend received
I don’t have any issues with anyone getting compensation either it’s appropriate
I’m not exactly sure where you are at there as I am in Oz but I do know about delays from friends
The article was suggested this would happen yes?
I also am F0 and before tx had an extremely low VL the highest reading I have was before interferon and it was 420,000
I have also been verbally told here that my wait would be long even now with the roll out on Govt Health, the PBS, yes verbal advice and yes from a liver clinic and yes within the past week
I may be shot down in flames for saying this on a forum but like you I had exactly that said and more to me
Hence my relief that I could afford these meds from FixHepC that have given me my UND at Day 40 testing. Only a month to go I am expecting an SVR
Do keep us in the loop how things are going over there
Rest assured people here are wondering too how Australia will triage all 230,000 patients now the approval nod has been given
As I said I don’t know myself but it would be interesting to see exactly who receives tx this year and if there are triage priorities in place.
In any event the hospitals and any doctor prepared to prescribe will be very busy!
Looking forward to your update
Cheers
Ariel

Sirenchenge, compensation was low in Oz
I was infected by medical procedure in a third world country so get no compo but a close friend was infected during major surgery here in Oz in the early 80’s and received a pittance
It’s an illness that the wider population are still learning about for sure. I personally don’t care how people are infected but I do care about treating people like you do. My ideal world would eradicate this illness
It is possible of course given this miracle of science
I’m just stoked to have my generics after all I have been through its been a crash course in learning many things
X

I have found out officially by highly sensitive audiologist testing that I have to wear a hearing aid because of the interferon robbing my hearing particularly the left ear, the device is just under $5000 AUS my right ear will need it too, but the left is an urgent. ….( on Friday I finally faced the music pun intended) , yes and I am a professional classical cellist who has done her fair share of other genres in studio, so now I am going to bombard you with my misery.
In the kindest way of course, me being a hippie type and all…so here is my favourite cello quartet doing some METALLICA.

PARDON? I DIDNT HEAR YOU SPEAK UP WILL YOU

Here is the link, no not too late to sign, all Aussies sign away. My bestie surf mermaid buddy is a path nurse and this going to be a nuisance. She explained to me the issues she sees, and of course we all see the big picture, less people going in for path etc means less diagnosis of all sorts of things, more hospitals groaning with patients, more lives being cost…just not a good situation. I think that the elderly, single parents, and may I as a mum of two of these… tertiary students are sorely affected here, it is hard enough for them to afford doc visits and they do need to be extra vigilant with health check after all we were all young once…who can remember I have real concern that the younger gen will avoid testing just because of finances…
I get the budget agenda here, but why not just adjust the tax threshold of the medicare levy rather than do this dodgy stuff? Oh well politics aside….

Here is the link: http://www.dontkillbulkbill.com/

Guess that calls for a song

http://youtu.be/m5TwT69i1lU