Posted by:
Anonymous on
August 11, 2008 at
9:29PM EST
About 8 years ago I had a new medical insurance and went to a doctor to get a complete physical. While I waited to see the doctor , I saw a pamphlet lying on the waiting room table. It talked about Hepatitis C and how someone could have it , and not even know it. I truly did not really comprehend what it was, but for some reason I took the pamphlet in the examining room with me and told the doctor I wanted a physical and that I wanted that test too. When I returned for my results, the doctor told me that the Hepatitis C test was positive. I said " Well I can just take some pills and I will be okay right? The doctor told me he would send me to a good specialist and gave me his card. I realized when I left the doctors office that this must be more serious than I thought. So I began researching all about the disease. I became very frightened and I truly thought that I was going to die and that I had little time left on this earth. I went to see the specialist, a wonderful doctor (gastroenterologist) who after many tests and a painful liver biopsy ,told me I had over a million copies of the virus in my blood system and that I had genotype 1, one of the hardest strain of the disease to cure. However he told me I still had a 10% to 20 % chance of cure with treatment. He suggested I commit myself to a rigid 1 year therapy of interferon injections and oral medication. He told me that I could not stop, once treatment was started, neither could I miss any doses as the disease could mutate and the treatment would then be useless. So I deciided that a chance was better than no chance at all , so I began treatment. Well now it is 8 years later ( my treatment long over) and I am Hepatitis C free! My doctor says I am completely cured! I know in my heart that God put that pamphlet in that waiting room for me to find,( as I had no reason to suspect I had the disease, as I was symptom free at the time of diagnosis and did not have any high risk factors to contract the disease either) I also know in my heart that God did this so I would take this treatment so I could get well. I know that God has and is working in my life. I am so thankful to God and my faith is forever strong. Adrianne
