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How has HEP C changed your life?
Posted on 06/26/08, 12:53 pm
Hep C has changed my life for the bad and the good. Of course the main thing is that my health is not as good on and off. On the other hand I am so careful with my food intake and exercise that perhaps I am prolonging my life. What I do not like is the worry and the days of feeling physically so out of sorts that I can only do the essentials.
The most positive thing, though, has been my concentration on my art work and actually seeing myself really develop due to the limitations of other activities that are really too vigorous for me.. Further, I really have taken a good look at my friends. I realize two people whom I have been really close to have drained a lot from me. One of these people actually said that she did not call me while I was taking interferon because she had her own problems to concern herself with and then proceeded to tell me that because I sounded happy and well on a telephone message I left that she wanted to get together forMe taking her to a birthday lunch and was I providing July 4th activities like I always did. I fell sad to think of losing a friend, but I just can not do this at all.
I wonder how HEP C has changed other people's lives.
The most positive thing, though, has been my concentration on my art work and actually seeing myself really develop due to the limitations of other activities that are really too vigorous for me.. Further, I really have taken a good look at my friends. I realize two people whom I have been really close to have drained a lot from me. One of these people actually said that she did not call me while I was taking interferon because she had her own problems to concern herself with and then proceeded to tell me that because I sounded happy and well on a telephone message I left that she wanted to get together forMe taking her to a birthday lunch and was I providing July 4th activities like I always did. I fell sad to think of losing a friend, but I just can not do this at all.
I wonder how HEP C has changed other people's lives.
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Reply #1 06/26/08 1:37pm
Oh dear friend!!! I understand you...Stay with possitive people and I do know how we try to sound like we are doing good even when we don't because we don't want to worry others...Friend, I do the same thing...Hep c has been very bad for me in the way of hurting and feeling bad but it has made me a better person and humbled me so much because I have been in recovery for ten years and before that I was on the streets drinking and druging and everything else that goes with it...I was a homeless drunk that would pass out anywhere on the street and my kids and family would come to check on me and pray for me and beg me to come home until one day my prayers were answered and now I am the grandma and the mom I was alway supposed to be and my family is vey proud of me...And yes I feel bad and I think of it alot but I am a nicer person and I learned how to love others...Thanks for your story and feeling friend...Pam -
Reply #2 06/26/08 4:27pm
Laucida and Pam you are both wonderful supportive people. Laucida I so wish you could post some of your art work up, would so love to see it.
Also taken a good hard look at my 'friends' some of whom actually aren't anymore, when i asked one why he hadnt been round he said 'I'm not good with dying and all that stuff' ARSEHOLE.
Mainly i have had to serverly change my social habits. Binge drinking, coke and pills, have all been out of the window for me. When my treatment is finished I will NOT do it again, i beleive i have changed as a person to much, I just use to bumble along with my life, never questioning why i was doing anything, just going with the flow, I feel a much much stronger person now.
Been concentrating on my artwork, which i havent done for almost ten years, it feels good, a new lease of life, my garden and different people, people that do other stuff apart from falling out of pubs blind drunk.
Its all been quite positive really, i never though i would say that.
Pam, I am proud of you also and actually everyone here, its amazing how we all arrive very scared but find it in us to support other people.
LOVE YOU ALL -
Reply #3 06/26/08 5:52pm
YOU PEOPLE ARE AWESOME!!! THANKS...PAM -
Reply #4 06/30/08 12:14am
So you want to know how this dragon has changed my life. When I was first diagnosed with it, I was scared to death. Then I adjusted my thoughts and got mad. Mad at the person who donated blood that was tainted. Then I came back to reality. This person didn't know they were donated bad blood. This person was doing a wonderful thing by giving his blood to others. Way back then they didn't test for hepc. So I came to terms with it. Went through 48 weeks of pure HELL and I mean pure HELL. I often thought to myself while on TX is this what hell will be like? I know one thing I never want to go there again. It's changed my entire outlook on life. I charish every single minute that I get to spend with my loved ones. I look at people differently now, you never know what kind of things they may be dealing with at that time. It's made me a better person. I stopped all form of social life. Because my social life used to be going out having some drinks and kicking up my heels. I used to have a blast. Never a heavy drinker but I did enjoy the good times when I did drink. Now I'm a home body. God blessed my with grandchildren when all of this started and they are the lights of my life. The reason I get out of bed in the morning. The reason I breath. I have heard the God won't close one door with out opening another. And to my surprise he closed the door to my old life and opened one that has filled me with such joy I could never put into words. I live everyday as if it were my last. And I plan to have my last day at least 1,000,000 more times. Much love to all of my Daily Strength Family....I love you all....xoxo -
Reply #5 06/30/08 12:32am
I feel exactly the same way my sis... -
Reply #6 06/30/08 12:33am
I feel exactly the same way my sis... -
Reply #7 07/01/08 5:57am
FUCKIN A It has changed my life!!!!!!! Let me count the ways dammit!! I wasnt even gonna reply to this for I'll end up getting mad. After 3 failed treatments you can imagine how I feel at times? Cant Ya?? But on the positive note, I wouldnt have gotten to meet NONILV,JOAN49,MY KPHELPS,SHELLY AND GEARY, So there is GOOD out of my journeys!!! Love ya -
Reply #8 07/01/08 10:16am
AWSOME BROTHER!!! -
Reply #9 07/01/08 12:11pm
Hepatitis C changed my life for the better..much better..Once I cleared this virus I realized that I am a very nice patient person. Before treatment I wouldn't give you the time of day..today I would give someone the shirt off my back..yah I'm working on that one..a little too giving here.
Bayla -
Reply #10 07/01/08 6:00pm
It saved my life, I was on a rollar coaster to hell, and because of God's grace, and this site, 1 and a half years ago when I was on my last half of my tx, I found this site, And believe me I was at my last bit of hope I swear , and I meet Tatt, and McKenzie, and a whole lot of great people and my life has not been the same sense, I made it through the 56wks of treatment only to find out I was a non-responder, It was heart breaking, But with the help of others, and the great info here , I hold on to hope, hope for a new treatment, just like all of us that are waiting, I now try to do things that help others, I do read alot of the hep C board, and You all should be Proud, great group of peoples, Love.....D*F*K {Fallen Hero's Never Forgotten }
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