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I can relate…I too drank my 3-4 Barcardi’s EVERY night and when younger drank regularly and quite heavily sometimes. My Fibroscan and Ultrasound only showed a fatty liver and the last LFT was good……I certainly dodged a bullet I think being diagnosed (quite by chance) and am now on treatment…..have my four week blood test next week and will hopefully find out on 21/12 the results…very nervous but hopefully will have a good outcome. I now drink Holsten’s non-alcoholic beer…..quite a nice drop once you get used to it.
Thank you G…..I have chosen which family and friends to tell regarding the virus. I have spoken to my husband and children and they are very supportive of me “getting the word out” through my FB. If I can even alert a handful of people to the Buyers Club it will be worth it and of course social media is a good way to get the word out there.
Well that bought a tear to my eye….so sad for him, I hope it all turns out okay. I will be making a donation (around $100 as I can’t afford much more before Xmas but certainly will continue to donate next year). My employer matches any donation I make to charity so that will be $200 before Xmas. May go a small way to helping someone who so badly needs the medication.
I will definitely be Facebooking my experience (if that is okay to do so). There are many whom I know (family & friends) who do not know I have the virus but I am more than happy to put my experience on my FB and if it helps even one person who has not heard of the Buyers Club I will be happy. If it isn’t appropriate to “advertise” the Buyers Club on my person FB please let me know.
I confess that I knew very little about Hep C, and how one would catch it, when I was diagnosed (after an iffy LFT and then routine bloods taken by my Doctor). I had no conception of its implications etc. Anyway after much reading (and scaring myself half to death) I took the bull by the horns so to speak and arranged to have a Fibro scan and Ultrasound done. Thankfully those results came back good and apparently I have only a fatty liver at the moment (this was back in February/March). A work colleague bought in an article from The Age on the Buyers Club and the rest is history. I am in my third week of treatment and will have the all important blood test next week.
I have absolutely no idea how I contracted the virus and I guess it doesn’t really matter now but in the early days I really wanted to know so I would have someone to blame for it……I doubt I will ever find out now but I sure do want to make people aware that Dr Freeman and his team and also Em (who has been a great support to me) are there to help. I did follow Greg Jeffrey’s blog for a while as well.
I don’t judge anyone and at the end of the day it really doesn’t matter how people catch it, it is now about curing it!!
Cheers Lynne
The best you can do to get smileys line up is to put them in the same row of a table (you need lots of TD (table division) things in the same TR (table row)
SO HAPPY for you Em, you are an inspiration and truly a decent caring person. I know you will help so many more heppers as you have helped me move forward to reach for healing. Thank you a million times, and thanks to Dr. James and crew. The facebook page sounds like a great idea and hope you can reach out to many more.
