Hi,

my posting was somewhat of a knee jerk reaction after watching the television.

I expect there are no easy answers with planning to protect populations from pandemics and the like. I suppose my angst was more in line with agencies that are there to protect me, wasting my tax money on restricting my right to access information from the internet.

Rant finished, my daughter wants me to pay ‘crocky boys’ (don’t ask), so wheres the banana?

Jeff

Hi Fitz,

I am starting to see your point. Maybe Aussies are a bit too subtle when we talk about stuff.

There is an exception to prove this rule though – when we discuss the the well thought out, dumb as shit actions of Australia’s very own fuck-wit academy, the TGA (I refer to the geo blocking thread).

Yours

Jeff

Hi all,

this recent part of the thread just reminds me of how powerful language can be. My career with HCV has been reasonably okay in regard to the manner I have been shown by health professionals. This is aside from the “Jeff couldn’t cope [with interferon plus the other stuff]” many years back. Ever since, things generally okay as I said. RPA wise – distinction grade.

Many years ago I had an unrelated conversation with a solicitor about compensation and damages (read Court pity and willingness to acknowledge someone has been hurt), and he said a big problem with many conditions is that people appear healthy, and I guess you look that way with HCV until the old boot starts to give out. Sometimes I think we walk a thin edge sympathy wise. Not just straight out assumptions about the manner in which we have become HCV positive, but expectations that we can be warehoused until medications become more affordable.

The people I see generally have me checking their weeks record so that I am on the same page as them, even if the request to see me is just to get some advice about their Centrelink or even a local bus timetable. I am lucky though as the people I see are such that they often can misinterpret things that are said, so I have be be conscious of this automatically.

Not sure if I am getting the message across, but just saying language is all important to me, I feel bad enough having HCV to begin with.

Yours

Jeff

I seemed to have developed a sudden interest in this thread and was wondering in regard to the bold bit above – does this mean if left alone, there is some chance the RAV in-breads may be that inbred, they simply cark it and die out. Can’t find any articles along this line though.

J.

Hi Hit The Road Jack

Quoting Gaj: “The main problems with us G3s seem to be related to cirrhosis, previous Tx, VL and length of Tx. I score very poorly on the first three so went into 24 week Tx knowing I only had a 80% likelihood of success based on previous studies. While I didn’t achieve SVR my overall health has improved in leaps and bounds putting me in a good position to do so next time”.

I didn’t make it over the line in the get rid of hep C race either, but then again, read the underlined bit above. I do not fully know whether the old lethargy has returned (maybe a bit of reactive depression, though I have caught a cold going around work as well), but the time on meds has seen me join the human race again and establish the habits of getting my money’s worth from the gym subscriptions. Dogs and daughter appreciate my new found involvement in life too.

Yours

Jeff

Found this link when looking at this:

U.S. Study Looks at Long-Term Durability of Hepatitis C Cure, Risk of Relapse and Liver Cancer

By Sean R. Hosein
From Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange

May/June 2016
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Researchers in several countries — including France, New Zealand, the U.K. and the U.S. — reviewed the records of several thousand people who had been cured of HCV using direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) and found very high rates of cure that were sustained up to three years after cessation of therapy. That is, once cured, the vast majority of participants stayed cured. Rates of relapse, reinfection and liver cancer were very low after cure was achieved.

http://www.thebodypro.com/content/77767/us-study-looks-at-long-term-durability-of-hepatiti.html?ic=sanext

yours

J

“Former chief executive John Hornell, who left the foundation last year after 17 years, said he could not discuss anything. He said he had signed a confidentiality agreement which prevented him talking about his time with the organisation or why he resigned.”

Not particularly commenting on the right or wrong of any allegations of impropriety, but – amazing, use of public money being questioned, and so we sign a ‘confidentiality agreement’ and plead the fifth (so to speak).

Hope this type of “don’t ask, I wont tell” stuff finds its way across the ditch.

J.