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How much better can one person feel !
Hi Community.....Just me spilling my heart again, having those thoughts of GRATITUDE for my life..I don't want to sound like I'm being insensitive but I haven't felt this good in over 30+ yrs ! Just how good am I going to feel when my body finally clears all the meds? This is such an amazing and foreign feeling for me after so many yrs of feeling "not quite right" never having clue one that I had a destructive virus running amuck in my body....don't want to sound all sappy and stupid, but I have come such a long way like all of us here. I've been given a second chance for the second time.....this was my time for a miracle and I'm going to use this time more wisely. Certainly don't doubt anyone on this forum feels much different. its wierd but I look back now when I first found out I had HCV and thought "I'm gonna die" and was totally blown away..I knew nothing about the disease and some of the ignorant stigma that accompanies it. Well I read all that I could, found a Hepa jumped thru all the hoops necessary to be accepted into Tx program. Triple therapy was poison but one thing lead to another and here I am with 4 weeks to go!
If there are any Newbies out there who doubt if treatment is worth it, to them I would say WITHOUT A DOUBT AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN......ok I'm sure ur all asleep now, sorry everyone
Much Love, Gratitude, Healing and SVR
Deb
If there are any Newbies out there who doubt if treatment is worth it, to them I would say WITHOUT A DOUBT AND I WOULD DO IT AGAIN......ok I'm sure ur all asleep now, sorry everyone
Much Love, Gratitude, Healing and SVR
Deb
Well said Deb—I agree with you!
Your story and mine are so much the same, like you I didn't know I had this virus running around in me for 40 years until last year about this time. And like you I had a Hepa who had faith in me to do the Tx, and I was the first person at the hospital I was at to have the new triple therapy as well. It is hard for anyone else, except for someone who has gone through a similar experience to know how we feel. Because of the stigma of HCV it is hard to share, but it has been a rebirth for me also, and a spiritual experience, because I really did a lot of praying for the cure, and it happened. It is good to let other people new to this site to know that good things are possible, and it is certainly worth the Sx to have the dragon be gone.
So during this holiday season, we have much to be thankful for, and it is the perfect time for a new start.
Congratulations Deb! It is ok to be joyful!
Sandi
Your story and mine are so much the same, like you I didn't know I had this virus running around in me for 40 years until last year about this time. And like you I had a Hepa who had faith in me to do the Tx, and I was the first person at the hospital I was at to have the new triple therapy as well. It is hard for anyone else, except for someone who has gone through a similar experience to know how we feel. Because of the stigma of HCV it is hard to share, but it has been a rebirth for me also, and a spiritual experience, because I really did a lot of praying for the cure, and it happened. It is good to let other people new to this site to know that good things are possible, and it is certainly worth the Sx to have the dragon be gone.
So during this holiday season, we have much to be thankful for, and it is the perfect time for a new start.
Congratulations Deb! It is ok to be joyful!
Sandi
So happy for you. Yes, it's a great feeling to have your body back. God knows there's enough negative things in this world we live in, but your story will certainly inspire some newbies and bring them out of the darkness and into the light of hope...
Magnum
Magnum
I have hesitated to gush for sometime now for the fact that there are those of us that are suffering the effects of Tx and I felt it would be seen as being a little insensitive. I thought perhaps since being so close to EOT maybe it would be ok. Also I didn't want to get ahead of myself UND wise.
PATRA has said it perfectly. I would have not made this my first choice to grow as a person either, but here I am, we are, and I'm humbled by the people on this site everyday.
So we all keep fighting-------ONWARD DRAGONSLAYERS WOOOHOOOO!
PATRA has said it perfectly. I would have not made this my first choice to grow as a person either, but here I am, we are, and I'm humbled by the people on this site everyday.
So we all keep fighting-------ONWARD DRAGONSLAYERS WOOOHOOOO!
I think your gushing with joy. My oh my, that's a wonderful thing.
You know what? Your right. So nice to be rid of the "Beast of Burden"
......Kim
You know what? Your right. So nice to be rid of the "Beast of Burden"
......Kim
Hiya BC,
A big DITTO would suffice, AND, lol suffice to say I haven't mastered suffice yet ;-)
YOU are an awesome encouraging woman!!!, as are all the incredible women here(some men too...read can do's status & responses for a year!) laughter!!
So very blessed by your post & that you're feeling so great!!!!
P,L,H,G,B and peace to u Deb,
Ran
A big DITTO would suffice, AND, lol suffice to say I haven't mastered suffice yet ;-)
YOU are an awesome encouraging woman!!!, as are all the incredible women here(some men too...read can do's status & responses for a year!) laughter!!
So very blessed by your post & that you're feeling so great!!!!
P,L,H,G,B and peace to u Deb,
Ran
Thank you AWESOME WOMEN u r the best women Ive ever met, no joke!
Love & Hugs
Deb
The Buddhist Chick
Love & Hugs
Deb
The Buddhist Chick
I identify with and second everything Deb said!
Deb, don't apologize! You said what is in your heart and said it well! So many of us feel it but couldn't express it so well.
I just want to add, having this disease, going through the treatments (x2), and the experience of being touched (and touching) by all of the wonderful people on this site have helped me grow TREMENDOUSLY!!!
I would not have chosen this method to grow as a person, but we never know what will take us there. I am just blessed that, for all the problems I have experienced, I have gained so much more.
If I don't clear this time, I will regroup, take a deep breath, exhale, thank God for the fact that there are new meds coming along so I (we all) can retreat, if need be, and go for it.
Just to be clear, praying that none of us needs to re-treat and that all who come after us also SVR soon!
Sorry, I am long winded, as always! : -). Pat
Deb, don't apologize! You said what is in your heart and said it well! So many of us feel it but couldn't express it so well.
I just want to add, having this disease, going through the treatments (x2), and the experience of being touched (and touching) by all of the wonderful people on this site have helped me grow TREMENDOUSLY!!!
I would not have chosen this method to grow as a person, but we never know what will take us there. I am just blessed that, for all the problems I have experienced, I have gained so much more.
If I don't clear this time, I will regroup, take a deep breath, exhale, thank God for the fact that there are new meds coming along so I (we all) can retreat, if need be, and go for it.
Just to be clear, praying that none of us needs to re-treat and that all who come after us also SVR soon!
Sorry, I am long winded, as always! : -). Pat
Hey there, I am sooo very happy to hear how well you are doing. Posts like this give so much hope to so many people. For every one that posts there are many many, sometimes hundreds of people who are reading.
Congratulations!!
Dee
Congratulations!!
Dee
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