Hepatitis C
A virus that kills attacking the liver, curable by Interferon and Ribavirin, taken over a 24-48 week cycle.
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“Nothing to tell now Let the words be yours, I’m done with mine” By John Perry Barlow with Bob Weir Recorded on Ace (Warner Brothers, 1972) Cora, Wyoming February, 1972 I go months and months without thinking about certain things, including the grateful dead, and then in a wave and a rush, I’ll remember how…
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As most alcoholics, I am often childish, oversensitive, and grandiose. I’ve spent a lot of time wondering if writing this book was even a good idea, and I constantly worry about the harm I’ve done in being so brutally honest about my life, and especially in my sobriety, but ultimately I always come back to…
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Funny both my father who died when I was 11 to suicide, but really to alcoholism and addiction, and my step father who stepped into my life right after his death, both listened to Earl Nightingale tapes almost religiously. I listen to them over and over, as well as other philosophers and sales training gurus,…
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Wow, what an honor, to be asked to do anything at all special regarding the book, but to be asked to be a featured author for a recovery based website, I mean, that’s damn near moving. I’ve made a lot of mistakes in recovery, I’ve not always been the kindest, most humble human being on…
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The recovered drug addict/alcoholic such as myself, is apt to find that even without drugs and alcohol, he is still quite capable of obsessing over certain things. With 4.5 years of real sobriety now, I’ve obsessed over everything from WW2 strategy games, to my book Hippopotamus Sea which took three years to write and finish.…
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Few people really do their own thinking. As Mark Twain said, the only original thought written down was either Adam or Eve. That being said, too much deferring of your thoughts, or living by other people’s opinions can be hugely detrimental to your life, and most especially if you’re in the program of Alcoholics Anonymous.…
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This has been a strange week for me. I thought something hadn’t affected as deeply as it really had, and seeing a few images brought it all back to light, and made me sad. To this day I just don’t understand how women dismiss chemistry so easily, as if it’s just something that the next…
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What an amazing day here in sunny Atlanta, after 6 straight days of cloudy gloomy cover, it was great to tell my story at the 11:30 and hang out with a newcomer friend of mine in the rooms, and talk to him about sobriety about life and about the amazing gift of sobriety. The first…
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Country music icon Naomi Judd opens up about being diagnosed with hepatitis C. For more information, visit http://www.thedoctorstv.com/ Several public figures suffer from hepatitis C and some have died. Celebrities with hepatitis C, according to news reports: • Gregg Allman Rock musician and founding member of The Allman Brothers Band • Pamela Anderson: She is…
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In 2008 I had just finished over a year of grueling, miserable Interferon Treatment which cured my Hep C, but which was hell. Even after quitting the Interferon I continued to suffer extreme headaches and it felt like some days I was better off while on Interferon. All you can do at that point though…
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