A reprint

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I was asked to share this with you, I had sent it to anotheer group.

Deb thought you guys should see the ugly truth that sometimes comes

from HCV I am doing better today just a bit weepy but then you' d

think I would get used to it. the truth is no one gets use to it

even when you know what is ahead for your friend or pt.ESLD is

rrreally visable not like HCV when you feel like crap and everyone

tellw you haaw great you look. So here is my letter from yesterday.

Subject: Hit hard

I lost a pt friend this morning, had just got the call last night

and when I called the hospital she was sleeping so I was waitting to

call again this morning when her mom called. She was one of thsoe in

support groups that could not comply so we had known she was never

going to be TP'd so when she found a new boyfriend she went with

him to Colo and then of course he left her and she was left there by

her self. She was a hard one to like but I liked her and sat many

hours with her in in our hospitals here. You know the kind you find

the good where no one else can see because she had mental problems

and addiction both. sorry this is the only place I feel confortable

enough to say these things out load I sure don't want to make the

newbies and those on treatment to freak. thanks guys well my

girlfriends is more like it. I had had to be vocal about it, can't

even bring to support group as most of them don't know her and the

ones that are older members did not understand. It makes me wonder

how all the support groups handle addiction because we are able to

treat those still doing drugs now and we are seeing more IVDu's.

Well I have vented for a minutes so again Thanks for letting me vent

here for a minute. Surviving together,