Stories

Telling Our Hepatitis C Story

January 15, 2013

I don’t know if any of my blog audience reads the HCV Advocate, a newsletter that I have been contributing to for fifteen years. Here is an excerpt from the January 2012 HCV Advocate. When I tell my story about having chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, it usually begins with the moment I got the [...]

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A Message of Determination and Victory

October 16, 2012

Alan Franciscus is my longest and dearest friend in the hepatitis C community. We met fifteen years ago and he is my mentor, brother, and hero. Alan founded the Hepatitis C Support Project and the HCV Advocate. He is a testimony to the power of what someone can do after answering “yes” to a deep [...]

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Tales of Hepatitis C

July 1, 2012

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. ~ Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, author, leader Speaking up about having hepatitis C is a brave and radical act. It takes courage to declare that you have an illness, particularly a potentially transmissible one. Telling your story is like [...]

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If We Don’t Learn from the Past

April 29, 2012

Today’s challenge is to write a Six-Sentence Story. Mine is titled: If We Don’t Learn from the Past For many decades, no one thought hepatitis C was a big deal. In the 1980’s, HIV came along and with it, some changes, so the number of new cases of hepatitis C dropped significantly. However, those millions of people [...]

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