Biopsey

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Hi Everyone,

Hi Liz,

How nice to hear from you and yes it has been a real long time! Glad to hear you had a nice vacation but sorry to hear about the poision oak! Never had it but know it can be bad!I am just trying to get back in to posting but not doing very good at it! I have been busy since I moved, I have a job taking a gal shopping, ect. on Weds. and was working every Fri. at a used clothes shop but she is closing, but I have a job across the street for a gal who sells mens and womens used clothes and real nice little gifts! Well the rest of this letter is one I wrote to new hep and wanted to share! Sure hope evryone is doing well!

Just wanted to let you know my biopsey went just fine,sorry I didn't get this wrote sooner but have had a really busy week. They took two samples and it was a ultra sound assisted biopsey. I didn't feel the biopsey but he numbs you all the way down to the skin around your liver so you won't feel it! Not sure which is worse though I think one good punch compared to all the needles to numb it might have been better!!!

Hey I did take the onions and the Dr. thought that was really funny, said I was the first. The guy who did the ultra sound said the gal at Patheology will love this since she always asks me where is the onions. So on our way to recovery he dropped off the samples and held the onions out of site and she said wheres the onions and he held them up, he said she was rolling on the floor! She kept the onions.

I only had to stay about three hrs. and I was able to lay on my back for the whole time, said there was no bleeding! Also they fed me lunch and gave me a pop as soon as I got in there. I know my one before they gave me yucky stuff like broth and seems I couldn't drink anything for sometime.

But do have some battle scars! They do an IV so incase they couldn't get it to thread into my hand, so he went and got a nurse to put it in my arm, have one hell of a bruise there, then the damn blood pressure cuff was so tight I have bruises all around my arm! Just about cried everytime it got tight!

Anyway I am doing fine hope everyone else is.

Love,Teri

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I had my liver biopsey completed Tuesday the 11th. I have " the "

appointment with the specialist on March 25th to find out the detail

of Geno type and recommended treatment. At first, I was not going to

go with the interfuron treatment, but my Dr. reasoned " if you had

cancer " would you get treatment.

The biggest issue for me is how this has effected my feeling of still

being a WHOLE person. Getting this has caused me to loose some of my

self worth feeling like I have a possible incurrable disease. I have

been dating a man since January whom I thought I was in love with.

We have a great time together. He lives in Wyoming and I live in

Utah. We had talked about living together, but now I need to stay in

Utah so I can work and keep my insurance going. I was divorced in

September, so don't have much of a net work of friends and family to

watch me through treatment. Fortunately, I don't have any other

health issues, and I am praying if I need treatment it would be

limited to the 6 month time frame. I am worried about going through

this alone and my Dr. suggested depression medication as I have had a

fair amount of depression. I haven't however figured out if it was

more to do with the boy friend I have been seeing and his inability

to make a commitement. I have also wondered if it has to do with the

illness I found out about when we first stared dating. Anyone else

experience this helplessness about your self worth? Maybe this group

could step out a bit... I have been working on goals and maintaining

a good value system. It does help to be surrounded with loving

stable friends and family.

The best to everyone who is looking forward to being cured.