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[orphanedhawk]

August 16, 2012

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends all baby boomers get tested for Hepatitis C. The infection, which one in 30 boomers is expected to have, causes serious liver disease, including cancer. It's treatable, but even that is a serious endeavor, involving months of heavy medicines that are taxing on the body. Melissa Block talks with Ana Johnson of San Marcos, Texas, who kept a video journal of her experience with treatment.

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/16/158943308/recording-hepatitis-c-a-patients-treatment-journal

[BoceprevirGal]

    Yes, my Support Group is chock full of people who have mangaged
to quit doing I.V. drugs;  some have 30 yrs sobriety, some have 20 yrs, some have 10 yrs, etc.
    And this fact should be known:  Yes, it is possible to quit doing
hard-drugs.  The statitstics often read bleak, like you said, but here we have evidence to the contrary.
   I have observed that many people sacrificed their drug addiction, and replaced it with first, curing their Hep C, and then, staying clean/sober, by helping others to clean up~

[his3707]

thanks for posting.  I havnt had a chance to look at her blog but Im so glad that people do it.  By looking at the video diaries that people have posted on you tube, it was helpful in me making a decision to treat.  I wish I would have **** one but I was to ill and no one here at my house seemed to have an interest in helping me with it... Yea, im still whinning about that..