Me & Hep C

Hi everyone! My name's Maria, I'm English, 41 years old, & single. I was diagnosed with Hepatitis C on Monday 4th September 2006 - a dreadful experience which I will write further about in a posting. I currently live in Germany, but am planning to return permenantly to the UK at the beginning of October 2006. This is my diary of my life with Hepatitis C.

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Location: Telford (originally Hochheim in Germany), Shropshire, United Kingdom

What didn't I say in my introduction??? I've got 2 daughters, Natasha 18 & Naomi 16, who are the best things that ever happened to me & whom I'm unashamedly proud of. I'm also blessed to have 2 wonderfully caring parents, & 2 of the best sisters you could ever wish for (one of whom is actually my niece, but more like a sister, as there's only 11 years between us). I qualified as a registered general nurse in 1986 & worked as a staff nurse in general medicine, surgery & rehabilitation for 10 years. I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 1991, not even a year after Naomi was born & in 1996, it got so bad, that I had to give up nursing & retrain. Since then, I've worked in administration of one kind or another.

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Newspaper article


As promised, here is a copy of the article that went in the Shropshire Star newspaper today promoting my headshave.

I was disappointed because having specifically told the reporter the prime aim of my head shave is promoting health awareness, she doesn't really give any information about hepatitis C at all, not even a website address for further information.

I intend to write a letter to the paper this week to address this lack of information & at least give the Hep C Trust's website address & have asked Raquel at the Trust if she could maybe contact them & ask if they'd consider doing a post-event article to redress the lack of information?

I'm very interested to hear what anyone else thinks of the article, so please feel free to post a comment & I'll certainly be letting you know how the follow-up goes!!

1 Comments:

Blogger TeaStarWitch said...

Maria, whatever you did was a great thing! You are a brave and motivated person. It takes a lot to do what you did. I'm not sure if I am brave enough for that.
Bravo!
Teah

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