Damn brain fog. I can't remember a damn thing~
hc

That dragon doesn't look to fearsome.  Looks can be deceiving though.

Yeah, I heard you can have even cirrhosis and have normal blood tests.
My primary care physician talked like since my blood results were good
I shouldn't worry about things.  I think moderate damage will heal
over time.  I wouldn't mind hearing only moderate damage.  But I look
forward to getting that biopsy over with so I know where I'm at.  I
want to start TX and hopefully get this over with ASAP as I'm sure
everyone here does.  

Manageable?  Glad to hear that.

Yeah I've observed that it can get a little hostile at times, even in
this thread.  Good look with your tx and hopefully I'll start soon.  I
hate this waiting.  But I guess if my ultrasound wednesday looks good
the liver probably isn't too bad and the biopsy won't have any
surprises.  They said I qualify for TX anyways because of the genotype
and I passed the iron test.  They said I didn't have to get the biopsy
but I want to know so maybe I could have started TX quicker if I
skipped it.  

Yeah, that's for sure.  But there's worse clubs to join.

Good to hear.  I think they're going to do an ultrasound rather than a
CAT scan.  I hope whoever's wielding the needle is more proficient
than the person who took my blood for the last test.  Bruised up one
of my arms and had to switch to the other.

Yeah, those odds sound better and the shorter TX duration made me feel
somewhat better.  I think maybe a smaller ribavarin dose too.  

Thanks.

Good point.  I've told more people now then I have ever told.  Finally told
my Mom.  Didn't want her to worry.  Still haven't told my boss though. I
found out about this about 9 years ago.  I think I had just barely gotten it
then too.  Like you said, everyone thinks you had to be a drug user or I
hear  permiscuous a lot.  I hear that a lot even in education training for
hospital employees.  Burns me up every time I hear it.  Chance of that is
less than 1%.

Welcome to the club.  Very supportive fokes here.

Susie

Which is known as *Feral Cave Dwellers* Incorporated.

And there's a river in Egypt called De Nile.

I have hep-C because I had a blood transfusion.

I needed a blood transfusion because I had an ulcer which bled.

I had an ulcer because I was angry and anger caused me to eat and drink all the
wrong things giving me indigestion and then I would knock back the pain with
painkillers and indigestion remedies.

*MY* *Fault*!

The very moment you got "good and mad" was the very moment you went into total
denial, which you were in already because, after all, you already told us what
a "good person" you are and like all "good persons" you can never accept
responsibility for anything that happens to you.

Now you have entered the world of feral cave dwellers where you surround
yourself with "loving" people with their phony outpourings of love and support
which enable you to live on as you are, never ever questioning your perceptions
of "good" or "not good".

Bah. You tell us how you got by in the MRI scanner
"by reciting the Lord's Prayer and the 23rd Psalm."

You deceive yourself Thip. Who are you to judge yourself as "good"?

You are just a nobody Thip, the same as me, and the difference between us is
that I know and admit I am a nobody with a disease that I deserve, while you
play God by judging yourself as "good" and never having done anything to
deserve what you have.

I would pity you Thip, for you are blind and cannot see, but you are proud and
drag others into your world. Like all of us you will reap that which you sew.

"Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no
evil, for Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me".

Bah! So why are you so afraid of death then? Are you going to deny that?
How can you? You posted:

You're scared of a virus killing you?
Did you not actually read the words of the 23rd Psalm?
I did Thip, when I buried my wife, just before your good friend Spokin told me
I was feeling sorry for myself, and should go get help. Well sh.t, I thought
that was what this newsgroup was all about, not for the likes of spokin to be
using as a chat up room, and of course I am not the only one who has been told
to stop feeling sorry for themselves by your friend Spokin when they have had a
family member pass away. Obviously he didn't tell you that but maybe he owes
you some money like he does so many others.

Now tell me again how rude I am. In the meantime you might like to understand
this. I was not put on the earth to make you, Spokin, Elmo or anyone else feel
comfortable. If you don't like what I say simply scroll down or delete, but you
sure as hell are not going to take away my right to say it.