Very cool Kramer!!! Very cool!!!!

Yes great story eh? Hope you're good today Oz.

Yeah, I'm OK. I hope Marilyn reads this!!!

Kramer,

For some reason or another that url isn't connecting me to the story... Instead it will cause mt browser to show a search result with the links to various "Daily Press" news websites from all over the USA that offer a very wide variety of news except for that story...

Could you please re-post it so that I can connect to it directly?
You Ozzita, I also have an interest in this story as well. ;>)

Respectfully,(For the most part ;>) )
HANK

Never mind Kramer... I found it!

Let's see if this url works better for me... Thanks anyway. ;>)

http://www.dailypress.com/health/dp-nws-clinical-trials-0425-20130426,0,6645498.story

HANK

Yes, I did read it. I couldn't bring it up with your site, but Hank's worked. Very encouraging! And thanks for posting it.

Thanks for reposting the url. It was working earlier for Oz and me but see it is now a dead end. Henry your's is working fine.

O I see the new url now offers a video too which mine did not ..just keeps getting better! :^)

I'm happy for him!

Interesting facts involving this story which is totally different than mine although I can still relate to some of the stuff he has experienced...

For instance:
1.) He's a living donor recipient which in itself is being better off when it comes to the dosage requirements of immuno-suppressant, anti-rejection drugs because the living donor is a much more compatible match requiring a lower dosage of the anti-rejection drug he's on...

I take a larger dose since I received a complete liver, and that means that they would have to significantly lower my anti-rejection drug (I'm on Tacrolimus otherwise known as Prograf) to very dangerous levels which could cause organ rejection during tx...

After over 15 years post-transplant, I didn't want to take the chance of organ rejection for the first time due to being on triple tx and that's another reason why I opted not to go in one of the same clinical trials as this gentleman did...

I don't know if this gentleman is on the same drug as I am since the article doesn't describe that detail... I do know that if Marilyn does the triple therapy with victrelis and the fact that she's on cyclosporine as her anti-rejection drug, they will not have to lower the dosage as much with her compared to what my transplant team would have to do with me...

2.) He has only been on Ifn therapy once prior to his transplant and I don't know whether or not he also took ribavirin... I was on Ifn therapy @ least nine times, and quite a few times post transplant...

3.) I had the transplant over 15 years ago... He had triple therapy w/Telaprevir roughly three years after his transplant which is very similar in time frames as Marilyn's own experience has been post transplant...

4.) Both Marilyn and this gentleman will have their triple tx as their first time being tx post transplant and for Marilyn, it would be her first time treating ever! I was treated with combo tx (SOC) if I remember correctly 4 or 5 times post transplant to no avail yet. ;>)

5.) Post transplant patients who have had the virus return tend to be more successful in achieving SVR if they treat shortly thereafter than with patients who have been post transplant for over 10 years or so and have not been as successful in previous attempts. :>(

6.)I was SVR twice for over two years and post-transplant also but, I developed mutations of the virus which now makes Ifn tx no longer effective and would make the triple tx ineffective also as well as being even more very dangerous for me!

7.) He's more fortunate than I was as far as false alarms go while waiting for the gift of life... He had three and I had seven! Now I don't know if Marilyn had any but, I'm sure she'll chime in once she read this story. ;>) Nonetheless, it was a great story!
Thanks for the story Kramer! ;>)

Respectfully, (For the most part ;>) )
HANK

Hank, I didn't have any dry runs or false alarms while waiting for my transplant. I knew that many people do. The night I was called in, it was 7pm and I was told to be in the operating room at 9pm. When I got to the hospital a little over an hour away, the transplant doctor said "This is it. Perfect liver for you", and they wheeled me in while I was signing papers. I still haven't pursued finding out about the person whose liver I received, but I would like to know this person's age, because I've heard that if the donated liver is from a relatively young person, your chances are better. Don't know if that's true or not. My donor was in Oklahoma, that's all I know, and the liver had to be flown in to Houston. By the way, when I got the call, I was at a Bible study, so everyone gathered around me and prayed, then my son-in-law headed to Houston with me.God is good.