So...have you tried Janis lately they might be able to help?
(Sorry I couldn't help myself there for a minute). How GREAT to see you posting, just seeing your name really made me smile.
And especially nice to see you in the lump with us nasty mean know it all girls who get all the grief. You can CanDoMan...and the little harem :)
I hope you are doing well. I hope that the Janis site helped. ;)
***Ina***
Hey there you!!!!
Listen IF you get a chance shoot me out an e-mail so I have your address again.... I don't have it on this computer that I am traveling with... I feel like I lost touch with you!!
Also include your phone # again in it so when we venture over your way I can treat you, & hubby to lunch, or dinner or something!!!
Didn't want you thinking that I was ignoring you, or abandoned you! Just didn't have your contact info with me!!!
(((Hugs)))
Vicki
You guys are way too kind but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't flattered and deeply touched by your words. Can-do, I don't know your stats by heart but I believe it is better to acquaint yourself with the people at transplant earlier rather than later. I am in no way implying that a tranpslant is imminent or ever will be but, if that possibility exists it's better to be prepared ahead of time in my opinion. And, I will say that if I was diagnosed today in the same condition that I was in in 1995 I might have avoided transplantation but, back then, interferon was not given to patients with advanced cirrhosis so treatment wasn't an option, at least insofar as my physicians were concerned. But I wasn't the man I am today and since my Dad was a doctor I truted that profession then far more than I do today. So basically Can-do I am saying don't give up your fight to get well w/o transplant. But, I can tell you're not like that. By the way, I agree with your assessment of the sentiments of some people at MH that they'd like to see me leave. That sentiment existed prior to this last episode of mine which demonstrates that it is indeed possible to be SVR and have HCV in the liver. I think that probably contributed to my person non grata staus with some members. That's just the way it is, I guess, but I am okay with that. I don't particularly love some members either but I try to tolerate them.
Tom, everything I said applies equally to you. Both you guys strike me as truly good, smart likeable people and I, for one, enjoy your posts and Tom, you could post a lot more often as far as I'm concerned. Oh, and Chevy, you know I like you a bunch too. Mike
Hi Ina, and yes you know my stats better then by doctor does. I plan on us making it for that dance. And yes i seen that post and i laughed my butt off. That was a good one.
haha! I see a few very wise swimmers have found the bottom feeders! NYG and fishdoc, hello! bottom feeding is back and I am so glad! there is something comforting about been here where only the few dare dive. the selected few. glad everyone is here, the new and the old(not me(.
I am going out with the kid, will be back for dessert.
Great to see ya, Tom. CDM and Ina, this is the only way we can force you to bottom feed, heh?
I hope you stay and post more, i had read in a post where you were possibility looking at a transplant. And i know mike already has. Im a stage 4 with a grade 2 and a diabetic most likely brought on by the hep-c and /or the cirrhosis. So the odds of me gaining svr are not to good. Me and my hepatologist as already had the transplant talk, and i've talk to the transplant team. I would be lost if mike quit coming here. And i sure wish you posted more. It would be great to have others like mike to ask questions if things take a turn.
Wishing you only the best.....
As for janis site i just can't handle all the hugs,love, xoxoxo, and those fancy sigs.