Death and Dying

Death from Hepatitis C

August 24, 2012

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. ~ George Eliot Like many of us in the hepatitis C community, when one of us dies from this virus, it sends a shiver of cold reality through our ranks. I don’t need to know someone well to grieve their death, a characteristic [...]

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Liver Failure

April 25, 2012

Warning: The majority of those with hepatitis C will not die from this disease, especially if we act to avoid the worst consequences. Today’s post is graphic and disturbing, but not an inevitability. It was a January day when the doctors told her that her liver was failing. They advised her to “put her affairs [...]

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