Some good news for this Saturday!

My google alert sends me stuff about Hep C every day in my email and this is an article I found hopeful.  Hope it helps all of you too.  We are witnessing the beginning of the arc of public education, much like HIV in the 80's, and I don't know about anyone else, but it makes me feel a little less alone to read about people like this being brave.  Enjoy.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/bell/20061021-9999-7m21bell.html

P.S.  Can anyone tell me how to make this link live here in the forum?

Willow

[prettydamscared]

Really good article.  Thanks for posting it. Almost wish I could email it to a couple people who just have no clue what treatment's really like, like my mother and kids. But you're right, I think we're at the beginning of a new era of enlightenment about HCV.

Char

[APKhaos]

I've been up since 3AM, so no guarantees on this. Come to think of it, I'm not even sure this board supports html within comments. So, lets see if this works:

[url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/bell/20061021-9999-7m21bell.html] News Anchor Goes Public on HCV [/url]

[Moniker]

I think this will work:
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[Liv]

Thanks a lot - that helped.  Here's hoping more "celebrities" and well known people will come out of the closet.  More exposure = more money for research.  Who knows, maybe we can start our own Hep C Quilt like they did for HIV.  One drawback, I can't even hem.

[Kalio1]

Thanks for the link. Poor guy, that must be rough trying to look ok for TV. I'd scare the entire viewing audience!

I also wanted to agree with you about being on the beginning of the arc of education about this disease. It does remind me of back when AIDS was first around. I lived in the Bay Area (SF) at that time and I remember it well. First I ever heard of it was people stapling flyers on telephone poles warning of the "gay cancer"
How incredibly far the education has come since then.

About your treatment, I am wondering why your doctor isn't considering a low dose IFN. treatment at this time to suppress the viral assault and possibly heal your liver at the same time.
I don't understand his reasoning in having you on no treatment since you have substantial damage now if low dose would help even if you don't clear the virus. I must have missed you posting about it, but if it was me I'd want to be trying to heal my liver even if I couldn't rid myself of the virus.
I know the new drugs look promising but there are still a lot of IFS before they will actually be here.