Comments on: Week 19 - Thursday http://www.ronmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/24/week_19_thursday/ Ron Metcalfe's Weblog Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:50:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: STEVE http://www.ronmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/24/week_19_thursday/#comment-156 STEVE Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.ronmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/24/week_19_thursday/#comment-156 HI RON, ONE OF MY CUSTOMERS IS INTO REIKI, HE SAYS HE IS GOOD AT IT, HE OFFERED TO DO IT FOR ME. TO BE HONEST I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BIT TOUNGE IN CHEEK ABOUT IT. DOES IT REALLY WORK?<br /> ALL THE BEST<br /> STEVE<br /> <br /> <strong>Ron writes:</strong> Steve - this is such an interesting question I am doing a blog entry on the topic! HI RON, ONE OF MY CUSTOMERS IS INTO REIKI, HE SAYS HE IS GOOD AT IT, HE OFFERED TO DO IT FOR ME. TO BE HONEST I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BIT TOUNGE IN CHEEK ABOUT IT. DOES IT REALLY WORK?
ALL THE BEST
STEVE

Ron writes: Steve - this is such an interesting question I am doing a blog entry on the topic!

]]> By: John Prior http://www.ronmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/24/week_19_thursday/#comment-157 John Prior Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.ronmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/24/week_19_thursday/#comment-157 I hope your treatment works.I`m a haemophiliac with severe Haemophilia A.I have been waiting over 6 months to see a hepatologist in Glasgow.My doctor said junkies are been seen before Haemophiliacs.My Haemophilia Group Has informed the Health Minister about our shocking treatment.I go out drinking every weekend.i know its wrong but its the only way i cope with chronic Hep C.Had interferon 10 years ago and it never worked.I only drink one night a week but its a lot.<br /> <br /> <strong>Ron writes:</strong> I hope you find justice about your treatment, John. Doctors do seem to say some amazing things (I was told at diagnosis to keep my HepC status secret because of the stigma!) and without any awareness of the impact on people's lives!! I believe the treatment medications have improved over the past 10 years so I hope you will find a more positive outcome this time around!! Good luck with it.<br /> <br /> While everyone (including you, as you point out) knows alcohol is not good for a liver with Hepatitis C there is also an important point about not giving yourself a hard time or stressing yourself out over the issue. Or over having HepC or Haemophilia for that matter. Have you thought of other ways to help you cope/come to terms with it?? I found counselling helped me to express alot of my deeper feelings & fears and made me feel a lot more 'balanced' and less reliant on coping mechanisms like drinking. I think a major problem having a dodgy liver is that the things most people do 'to cope' (drink, worry, etc) all give the liver a hard time - so the risk is, we end up taking it all out on ourselves (through the impact on our livers)!<br /> <br /> I wish you well on your journey - and talk to you again soon I hope<br /> Ron<br /> I hope your treatment works.I`m a haemophiliac with severe Haemophilia A.I have been waiting over 6 months to see a hepatologist in Glasgow.My doctor said junkies are been seen before Haemophiliacs.My Haemophilia Group Has informed the Health Minister about our shocking treatment.I go out drinking every weekend.i know its wrong but its the only way i cope with chronic Hep C.Had interferon 10 years ago and it never worked.I only drink one night a week but its a lot.

Ron writes: I hope you find justice about your treatment, John. Doctors do seem to say some amazing things (I was told at diagnosis to keep my HepC status secret because of the stigma!) and without any awareness of the impact on people’s lives!! I believe the treatment medications have improved over the past 10 years so I hope you will find a more positive outcome this time around!! Good luck with it.

While everyone (including you, as you point out) knows alcohol is not good for a liver with Hepatitis C there is also an important point about not giving yourself a hard time or stressing yourself out over the issue. Or over having HepC or Haemophilia for that matter. Have you thought of other ways to help you cope/come to terms with it?? I found counselling helped me to express alot of my deeper feelings & fears and made me feel a lot more ‘balanced’ and less reliant on coping mechanisms like drinking. I think a major problem having a dodgy liver is that the things most people do ‘to cope’ (drink, worry, etc) all give the liver a hard time - so the risk is, we end up taking it all out on ourselves (through the impact on our livers)!

I wish you well on your journey - and talk to you again soon I hope
Ron

]]> By: tom pryce http://www.ronmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/24/week_19_thursday/#comment-158 tom pryce Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.ronmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2005/03/24/week_19_thursday/#comment-158 hi ron. the comment by john prior regarding junkies being seen before haemophiliacs has what i consider to be a subtle stigmatising subtext. while i can empathise with john's situation, and while i don't want to appear "PC", the word junkie should be removed from the lexicon altogether. it is the use of words like this that have helped to create the discrimination difficulties all HCV+ people have to deal with. so to john, and to anybody else out there reading this, please use the term IDU (injecting drug user). we, as HCV+ people, need to stop stigmatising each other, first and foremost. no wonder this epidemic which we are all embroiled in is called "the epidemic of difference". these are differences we must overcome TOGETHER, regardless of how we originally caught the virus.<br /> regards<br /> tom pryce in darwin NT hi ron. the comment by john prior regarding junkies being seen before haemophiliacs has what i consider to be a subtle stigmatising subtext. while i can empathise with john’s situation, and while i don’t want to appear “PC”, the word junkie should be removed from the lexicon altogether. it is the use of words like this that have helped to create the discrimination difficulties all HCV+ people have to deal with. so to john, and to anybody else out there reading this, please use the term IDU (injecting drug user). we, as HCV+ people, need to stop stigmatising each other, first and foremost. no wonder this epidemic which we are all embroiled in is called “the epidemic of difference”. these are differences we must overcome TOGETHER, regardless of how we originally caught the virus.
regards
tom pryce in darwin NT

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