WaihekeDeb
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Hi
Well straight off the bat I'm feeling like a fool...I have never heard these expressions, they were in the rules section,SWIM, something about a hamster and an iguana???Please can you tell me what these are??? Is it an American form of slang for drug use or distribution.
They say you learn something new everyday and at 53 this will be mine for Sunday.
I've read through a few people's posts and just felt I had to say something to some of them, hence the reason I've registered.
I've definitely done my (and probably at least 10 other people's) share of drugs. I'm not proud of it, that's just the facts. As a result I was diagnosed with Hep C around 13 years ago. I have probably had it since my late teens (when I was sticking all manner of things in my arm). My initial reaction was "oh my god what about my kids ??!!!" as I had had my 2 in the time after I contracted it to when I was diagnosed. Thankfully they both tested negative. That was the real kick in the ass for me. The fact that my, shall we say, choices?? could have given my babies, now 31 and 28, a death sentence. It still makes me cry to think that that was a very real possibility. I couldn't imagine doing anything but protecting and loving them and yet if things had not turned out as they did, I could have been the cause of their deaths.
I have done the 48 week course of Interferon and Ribavarin. Suffered every side effect possible, had to give up my job as functioning like a normal person was not possible and I had a physical job so I just couldn't do it, I have hypothyroidism now and will take pills for it for the rest of my life, I suffered depression, psoriasis, would be awake for days going nuts, hated/struggled to do even the simplest of things, had no energy and was an absolute B**ch. I am just very lucky to have great friends who did not desert me, cos man, no-one would have held it against them if they had...I was horrible...most days it was as if I was watching myself but totally unable to stop myself from being this "hateful" person. The silliest, smallest thing would bug me. Normally I'm a real go-with-the-flow no-wuckers-mate type of person, but THAT me, freaked even me out. And then to add insult to injury, at the end of the 48 weeks the Hep was gone but then 3 months later SHE was back and is still with me now...But oh well I made that choice all those years ago and only have myself to blame. And hey half of that misspent youth I don't even remember...what a waste!!! So that's my story, not all of it, but the part that had the biggest affect on me and unfortunately the wonderful people around me. I cannot thank my children, my family, my friends enough for their love and patience and the occasional, much needed, boot up the ass lol. Without them I would not have survived.
Well straight off the bat I'm feeling like a fool...I have never heard these expressions, they were in the rules section,SWIM, something about a hamster and an iguana???Please can you tell me what these are??? Is it an American form of slang for drug use or distribution.
They say you learn something new everyday and at 53 this will be mine for Sunday.
I've read through a few people's posts and just felt I had to say something to some of them, hence the reason I've registered.
I've definitely done my (and probably at least 10 other people's) share of drugs. I'm not proud of it, that's just the facts. As a result I was diagnosed with Hep C around 13 years ago. I have probably had it since my late teens (when I was sticking all manner of things in my arm). My initial reaction was "oh my god what about my kids ??!!!" as I had had my 2 in the time after I contracted it to when I was diagnosed. Thankfully they both tested negative. That was the real kick in the ass for me. The fact that my, shall we say, choices?? could have given my babies, now 31 and 28, a death sentence. It still makes me cry to think that that was a very real possibility. I couldn't imagine doing anything but protecting and loving them and yet if things had not turned out as they did, I could have been the cause of their deaths.
I have done the 48 week course of Interferon and Ribavarin. Suffered every side effect possible, had to give up my job as functioning like a normal person was not possible and I had a physical job so I just couldn't do it, I have hypothyroidism now and will take pills for it for the rest of my life, I suffered depression, psoriasis, would be awake for days going nuts, hated/struggled to do even the simplest of things, had no energy and was an absolute B**ch. I am just very lucky to have great friends who did not desert me, cos man, no-one would have held it against them if they had...I was horrible...most days it was as if I was watching myself but totally unable to stop myself from being this "hateful" person. The silliest, smallest thing would bug me. Normally I'm a real go-with-the-flow no-wuckers-mate type of person, but THAT me, freaked even me out. And then to add insult to injury, at the end of the 48 weeks the Hep was gone but then 3 months later SHE was back and is still with me now...But oh well I made that choice all those years ago and only have myself to blame. And hey half of that misspent youth I don't even remember...what a waste!!! So that's my story, not all of it, but the part that had the biggest affect on me and unfortunately the wonderful people around me. I cannot thank my children, my family, my friends enough for their love and patience and the occasional, much needed, boot up the ass lol. Without them I would not have survived.
