Living Without HepC

Just opening this blog and not seeing “My ‘Hepatitis C’ Weblog” at the top of the page is so liberating.

Previously I have rigorously kept all my blogging ‘on topic’ about my experience of HepC. After treatment and recovery I felt like I have less and less to say because I no longer have HepC. Great gaps in time between blog entries illustrate that.

It’s only now that I see a different title to this blog I realise how much I did need to refresh and change the header. And that I still do have lots to say – about living without HepC. I don’t have to restrict myself to writing about HepC. There are other things in my life too.

This is the view from where I sit while I’m at work. Canal boats and walkers pass by occasionally.

I have just started a new consultancy assignment and I am enjoying my new work environment.

Technologically modern and sleek juxtaposed to the countryside and flowing water. Just thought I would share that.

Time for a refresh I thought, so out with the old look and in with the new.

Many thanks to Ben. As usual it took him two minutes to do what I had spent hours trying to begin. That’s why he’s a consultant developer to MySpace in Los Angeles and I’m not.

And time for a new title – and some other changes. One step at a time …

If you’ve landed here looking for my online diary of Hepatitis C treatment, click on the links below.

You can read it in two different formats - so choose which you prefer.
1. The original Blog format - written in reverse chronological order (ie - most recent entry at the top of the computer screen)
2. Book format - where the entries are arranged in chronological order

Good news! I have now completed the 48 weeks and successfully cleared the virus. I have achieved SVR as they say in the HepC world – Sustained Viral Response. SVR means the virus is undetectable in my blood each time they test it. The testing procedures are able to detect “down to” less than 20 copies per million. Until the tests are developed to detect down to 0 copies per million no one can be labelled “cured”.

That means there is a less than 1% chance that the virus is still there lurking and hiding. But, hey, there is a 1% chance that anyone walking about in the UK has the virus without knowing it, so I reckon my chances are about the same as anyone else out there.

1. BLOG FORMAT
Click here to read the blog in original format from the beginning…
When you click on the link you will be at the first entry. Read from the bottom of the page to the top and navigate to new pages following the Next Entries < < or > > Previous Entries hyperlinks (in light blue) at the top and bottom of the current page. Then use the Archives to open each months entries, clicking < < Previous Entries and scrolling to the bottom of the page to get to the first entries of the month.

2. BOOK FORMAT
Click on the link below to download .pdf file.

My Hepatitis C Treatment Weeks 1 - 48

You will need Adobe Reader to open .pdf files. (Get a free download copy from Adobe.com)
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