Tribe.net. Local Connections Mike http://hepatitisc.tribe.net/thread/e870750d-b25c-43c5-88d5-f24c82873a4e#6a209082-b5d8-46bb-88fc-9a1ba8a78400 2008-07-08T23:59:36Z 2008-07-08T23:59:36Z

A very belated thanks Tracey, still waiting for a liver.

Mike 2008-07-08T23:59:36Z Tracey http://hepatitisc.tribe.net/thread/e870750d-b25c-43c5-88d5-f24c82873a4e#cc1d6f43-ead5-4d84-af09-1b08ce1fb6d6 2008-05-16T18:50:55Z 2008-05-16T18:50:55Z

Hi Mike Hep C is not taken seriously in the UK. The awareness is almost non-existent. I didn't have a clue what hep C was when diagnosed, I'd never seen a poster, never seen any news articles or anything. AIDS, I knew about, everybody it seems knows about AIDS, not many know about hep C...but as you say, more people have hep C then AIDS! I've been lucky, treatment worked. My only fears are of it returning or of my scarred liver developing cancer. Three years is a long time to wait for a transplant and you must wonder....None of us really know if we'll die of a hep C related condition or some other disease or get run over by a bus? We all have to die of something.. I really hope you don't have to wait much longer for your transplant Mike.

Tracey 2008-05-16T18:50:55Z Mike http://hepatitisc.tribe.net/thread/e870750d-b25c-43c5-88d5-f24c82873a4e#0c6bb273-cc29-448f-9040-b73a6e086aa7 2008-05-09T15:52:13Z 2008-05-09T15:52:13Z

So far three people I either knew or was an aquaintenance of have died of end stage liver disease due to Hep c. I am begining to wonder if I will get my transplant or die first. Hep C is at a greater number then the AIDS epidemic by 4-1. I wonder if the powers that be will ever take Hep C as seriously as AIDS. I have been on the transplant list almost three years and have almost died until I got a TIPS shunt. Quite honestly I am scared one minute and the next I find myself being at peace with the idea of dying. Anybody else have similar feelings?

Mike 2008-05-09T15:52:13Z