Hepatitis C Support Group
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne viral disease which can cause liver inflammation, fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver cancer. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is spread by blood-to-blood contact with an infected person's blood. Many people with HCV infection have no symptoms and are unaware of the need to seek treatment. Hepatitis C infects an estimated 150-200 million people worldwide.
As you move into Phase 3, you and your family begin to reorganize around the new reality. A sense of acceptance emerges, and you start to answer these quesions: Who am I now? How am I going to make my life work?
As some point. things settle down. Perhaps you come to rerms with a reducted energy level, make dietary changes, cdecide on a treatment plan.
TESTIMONY
It got to be too much for me. I couldn't even dope with a full work day. Cassie and I had planned a mountain clibving vacation in the Rockies, but we decided to spend a week at a bed-and-breakfast with a mountain vierw instead. Finally, I had to accept reality.
Jim
If you start interferon treatment, you and your family and friends may need to organize around the treatment. Supose you decide to plan a nap each day, while someone else assumes your chores. What most people don't realize is that any change, positive or negative, alters the system. So, paradoxically, yo may need ot reorganize after you have finished interferon treatment. For example, you may still feel the need for a daily nap, but hte people around you may now disapprove.
The cycle of confronting the diagnosis, feeling it's impact, and reorganizing yourself to deal with hep c may recur with each piece of Health news. If hep c moves into advanced liver disease and a possible transplan, the concept of death may come to the forefront.
"The first big breakthrough for most people is the realization of how physically fragile we humans are." It's a difficult task to process, reprioritize, accept your mortality, and---at the same time---plan for post-transplant living."
Next.... HEALING VS. CURING
As some point. things settle down. Perhaps you come to rerms with a reducted energy level, make dietary changes, cdecide on a treatment plan.
TESTIMONY
It got to be too much for me. I couldn't even dope with a full work day. Cassie and I had planned a mountain clibving vacation in the Rockies, but we decided to spend a week at a bed-and-breakfast with a mountain vierw instead. Finally, I had to accept reality.
Jim
If you start interferon treatment, you and your family and friends may need to organize around the treatment. Supose you decide to plan a nap each day, while someone else assumes your chores. What most people don't realize is that any change, positive or negative, alters the system. So, paradoxically, yo may need ot reorganize after you have finished interferon treatment. For example, you may still feel the need for a daily nap, but hte people around you may now disapprove.
The cycle of confronting the diagnosis, feeling it's impact, and reorganizing yourself to deal with hep c may recur with each piece of Health news. If hep c moves into advanced liver disease and a possible transplan, the concept of death may come to the forefront.
"The first big breakthrough for most people is the realization of how physically fragile we humans are." It's a difficult task to process, reprioritize, accept your mortality, and---at the same time---plan for post-transplant living."
Next.... HEALING VS. CURING
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thanks for this, a good piece, making me think!
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Thanks McKenzie-I just got ins approval and start tx in Nov so am already prepping for changes...guess I will learn and change as things come...as you always say 1 day at a time!
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thanks,mckenzie.very helpful
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