Author: autononymous
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 1:48 pm
Thanks for responding to my questions Tearjerker. I hope you are feeling some better by now too. Don’t give up caring about yourself! You know, I have more than a couple of friends who have hep C. And I think everyone among the people I used to use with ended up contracting it–except me. And some of that was just luck, I am sure. I at least tried to take the infection risks seriously, which some of my friends simply did NOT, and in fact sometimes they acted offended when I questioned certain practices or insisted on certain other practices (like bleaching needles or using separate cookers). I tried to tell them, my concerns were for them as well as for myself! But in the early days we used to share intranasal equipment and that is now known to be a possible way to transmit hep C. And also, like you mentioned too, I was in many situations where it would have been easy to make a mistake about who had used which utensil…or to waive the risk away. You are right that it’s best to not get into those kinds of situations at all! But whatever circumstances we end up in, we can still try to keep caring about ourselves and do the best we can rather than to give up as if it doesn’t matter what we do or what risks we take. Again, I am really happy to hear about your being negative for Hep C now and I hope the rest of your treatment is not too hard on you.
