[pies]

Thank you for doing that. My husband, who had hemophilia,
contracted Hepatitis B and C from contaminated blood products. He went on to develop liver cancer, then end stage liver failure. He received a liver transplant but developed lymphoma 9 mos later (most likely from the immunosuppressants to prevent rejection). He died 12 weeks later after the second round of chemo. The chemo caused the hepatitis viruses to run rampant and the transplanted liver to fail.

Oh how I wish all of the criminals involved whould have had to sit and watch this very fine 43 year old man suffer as I did.

[adanaC]

*HUGS* for you, pies. You're right, people don't realize how agonizing end stage liver disease can be.

I know of one courageous man who is in pallative care for hep C liver failure. He's volunteered to allow someone to film him each day with a home video camera until he dies. He'll be a fighter to his death he says.

[backhoe]

I just hope it does a little good... perhaps, like water wearing away a stone, one drop at a time, the drip, drip, drip of information will wear away the things shielding this awful subject from the public.

When I first got on the 'net in 1999, the "Blood Trail" story was one of the first things I searched for, and I was amazed and appalled at how much information was out there, and the iron curtain of silence that hid it. What little use I still had for the Mainstream Media vanished then.

I'm awfully sorry to learn of your husband's ordeal- my first wife had a couple of bouts with cancer before a stroke carried her away, and while I try not to think of those days much, I do recall them all too well.