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  • About Me

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    Francesca59

    Female, 50
    CA, USA
    Member since November 10, 2007

    • About Me

      I am a Systems Engineer/Analyst a very loving mother and love life. I love to cook. Since my parents were from Italy I was lucky to grow up and learn some good values and especially how to cook and enjoy eating as much as cooking. I am looking for support and a community that can share the fears I have of my disease and can understand.

      I am a Systems Engineer/Analyst a very loving mother and love life. I love to cook. Since my parents were from Italy I was lucky to grow up and learn some good values and especially how to cook and enjoy eating as much as cooking. I am looking for support and a community that can share the fears I have of my disease and can understand.

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  • Journal

    • New to Fibro support group

      Mood March 20, 2008 8:19am

      Hi Everyone,

         I just joined this support group as well as my other.   I am also being aggressively treated for Hep C.   As we …

    • Journal Entry for November 21, 2007

      Mood November 21, 2007 1:22pm

      Today I refuse to feel bad, I am tired but have very many positive feelings about life and cannot wait to cook and eat lots of food tomorrow and be …

    • Journal Entry for November 13, 2007

      Mood November 13, 2007 7:04pm

      I am feeling much better today.  Thanks to all the wonderful responses and letters of encouragement and care, I am actually going to attempt to …

    • Journal Entry for November 12, 2007

      Mood November 12, 2007 11:29am

      I just want to say thank you to everyone who has reached out to me and opened their heart to me.  I truly appreciate it.  I am really sick …

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    • Hug

      From Janet4life November 4, 2008

      I HOPE THAT YOU FEEL BETTER SOON!!! JANET

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      From joybells October 31, 2008

      I'd love to be friends.

    • I’m With You

      From Mckenzie Community Leader October 21, 2008

      Anytime you feel like sharing, please I am here for you, and just a message away. Good luck at beating the leukimia, Love & Respect, Mckenzie One day at the time.

    • I’m With You

      From Mckenzie Community Leader October 16, 2008

      Just wondering how your feeling my friend. Just read that you were on tx, for hep c, but it complicated things with your other illness, and had to be pulled off. How are you coping with the other illness my love. I somewhat like yourself, had all kinds of illnesses popping up post my 48 weeks of treatment. It activated the aging process, and all of the aches and pains, that would have eventually hit me around my older age, hit me post tx, or into tx. I was 43-44 when I did tx. If you want someone to talk about your experience, we could share together, in the meantime, hope your having more good days then bad ones. Love & respect, Mckenzie One day at the time.

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      From uranangel64 July 30, 2008

      just sendng a hug, I hope things are going better for you, please let me know. your in my thoghts and prayers

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  • Goals

    Progress

    35 %

    Goal End Date is Jun 20, 08 523 days ago.
  • Support Groups

    • Close Hepatitis C

      I was diagnosed with Hep c 5 years ago when I went to work for a local hospital. I would not of known otherwise since I was not suffering symptoms. I am just now starting to feel tired and rundown, but so far I have refused treatments due to side effects.

      Treatments

      Interferon, pegylated Working / Worked
      Horrible pain, burning all over my body, convulsions, nausea, mental forgetfulness, and doctors that don't believe I am going through all these things even though they are listed as common symptoms.... however, it is working, my viral load went from 4.5 million down to 300
      Ribavarin Working / Worked
      awful side effects just as stated above... however, its working I am responding viral load went from 4.5 million down to 3 hundred
    • Close Fibromyalgia

      Hi I am currently being treated for Hep C. I have recently about two weeks ago on top of all the other crappy symptoms have been experiencing the pain that feels like someone has injected boiling water into my blood it feels like my blood is boiling and that needles are pricking me all over. I am in so much pain, I was wondering if anyone can share a similar experience

      Treatments

      Heat Not Working
      not working, but feels good, however obviously does not get rid of the wierd pain
    • Open Physical & Emotional Abuse

      I belong to two other groups. One for Hep C, One for Fibromyalgia and I am also a Domestic Violence survivor from a horribly abusive marriage and also child sexual abuse from my grandfather for 13 years until I fought back. I found my other groups to be of such support and soul enrichment, I joined this group. I have been away from my abuser now for many years. I volunteer for the domestic violence crisis line, I also do interviews and participate in anything that has to do with abuse

      Treatments

      Abuse Counseling Working / Worked
      I went through 5 years of counseling and even though I still and probably always will suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder....I am functional, went back to school, currently work as a Network Engineer and have a wonderful relationship.
      Art Working / Worked
      I am no artist, but I find working with my hands, painting, arts and crafts, sewing to be a great way to be with myself and love myself and relax
      Divorce Working / Worked
      I was unable to divorce my abuser since he was shot and killed before he was served with the papers that I started. I confronted my childhood abuser and doing great.
      Forgiveness Not Working
      I will never ever forget my abuse, I will never forgive my abusers..I feel forgiving them to be harmful to me. I feel forgiving them makes it "ok" that they did what they did, however, you have to find a place to put these feelings and for everyone its different
      Group Therapy Working / Worked
      I first was involved with the group therapy for myself and now participate as a group leader and domestic violence counselor.
      Leave Working / Worked
      GO, Prepare, have all your papers of importance hidden, plan, bury them in the back yard if you have to but when you leave and you need to leave, have at least all documents you need given to someone you trust or a place your abuser knows nothing about. If you do not leave you will continue to be abused. It DOES NOT get better...it can only get worse. I want to see anyone going through this to fight to stay alive
      Music Working / Worked
      Music is healing to the soul no matter what your problem is.
      Talking Working / Worked
      I can only sum this up as the best therapy you can do to achieve healing ....I might add a journal or journal writing is good if you can hide it from your abuser
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