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.
I've been on this group for less than a month. I'm not on any sort of treatment yet as some of you know from my posts. I was so relieved to find this group. I thought it would give me a sense of hope. Brothers in arms, as one member wrote.
There seems to always be that one person in a group that is a center of pestilance, that has an agenda they wish to subject the entire group to. This is sad, it happens on all kinds of groups.
I am very upset that someone chose to leave the group as a result of someone's well thought out post that had absolutely nothing to do with what the group was set up for.
I mentioned (in a post) that I was a cosmetology instructor at one time and that I told my students not to discuss sex, politics or religion with their clients. In my oppinion it doesn't belong here on a support group either.
What a huge can of worms was opened. I could choose not to reply, I could choose to stay quiet, but I will not. As a result of this I, personally lost someone who I did not know, but was going through the same thing that I am, being recently diagnosed and no insurance. Now that person felt
so uncomfortable here that she left. What was the purpose in this? Why did this have to happen in the first place. I don't get it.
If you would like to be my "friend" on this group and send me pictures of your dog, or tell me how your child makes a mess and won't clean up his room, great! Please, on this group, don't talk about your politics, your sexlife or lack of one, or the big one- your religious beliefs. I have my own, thank you.
To the DS Team- shame on you. That post should have never made it on the list.
If there is a subgroup for those of us who are LGBT or LGBT friendly I guess someone needs to direct me to such a group, preferably one who supports those of us who have Hepatitis C.
I'm off my soapbox for now! Going outside to see the sun peeking out of the beautiful Big Bend skies and love on my dog.
Btw, as Katy Perry sang- I kissed a girl and I liked it.
There seems to always be that one person in a group that is a center of pestilance, that has an agenda they wish to subject the entire group to. This is sad, it happens on all kinds of groups.
I am very upset that someone chose to leave the group as a result of someone's well thought out post that had absolutely nothing to do with what the group was set up for.
I mentioned (in a post) that I was a cosmetology instructor at one time and that I told my students not to discuss sex, politics or religion with their clients. In my oppinion it doesn't belong here on a support group either.
What a huge can of worms was opened. I could choose not to reply, I could choose to stay quiet, but I will not. As a result of this I, personally lost someone who I did not know, but was going through the same thing that I am, being recently diagnosed and no insurance. Now that person felt
so uncomfortable here that she left. What was the purpose in this? Why did this have to happen in the first place. I don't get it.
If you would like to be my "friend" on this group and send me pictures of your dog, or tell me how your child makes a mess and won't clean up his room, great! Please, on this group, don't talk about your politics, your sexlife or lack of one, or the big one- your religious beliefs. I have my own, thank you.
To the DS Team- shame on you. That post should have never made it on the list.
If there is a subgroup for those of us who are LGBT or LGBT friendly I guess someone needs to direct me to such a group, preferably one who supports those of us who have Hepatitis C.
I'm off my soapbox for now! Going outside to see the sun peeking out of the beautiful Big Bend skies and love on my dog.
Btw, as Katy Perry sang- I kissed a girl and I liked it.
People can react rather than act, they can assume rather than seek the truth, they can judge when it is unChristian to judge.....
we are to love others as ourselves......end of discussion.
no matter what we have done in our past, what we do or what we will do, have failed to do and have succeeded in doing....God loves us all, no more; and no less......
Let go, be not responsible for another's injustice and pain. Be not embarrassed, guilt has no place when the sincerest gesture has been made.....
My best friend is homosexual, he is GAY...who cares....and I love both him and his husband.....
I am bipolar...big whoop.....mental illness....and?????
I am a Christian, and God has held my hand in the last 3 years of my life, and all throughout the last 15 months of HCV life.......
without Him, I'd have quit.....or not cleared.....or gone kookoo....or not have treated at all.....
These points all are supportive to me.....There are many folks here that share these views and helped me through tx.....without them, I just don't know....
So,please; lets not knock religion.....especially when it is positive and supportive, spoken in the best of intentions and not in vain...
when it is mean spirited, then by all means, kick it wayside, as there is no place for that anywhere in the world.....
I wish the newbies welcome, peace and understanding;
we all suffer from the same disease and "get" the fears and emotions...the unknown.....the pain.
We also the the victory......and it is worth it...
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