Hey OM?

Is it too personal to ask the reason for your procedure? Hepatitus ? (spelling?) Diabetes or something? Other? Trust me, I have no intention of being insensitive, some people are open about these things, which I gather you are from your opening post, and some people are not.

I know someone who had a liver transplant from Hep A I think. Makes me think about being a donor. Seems like a waste if I get in a car accident and hurt beyond repair but my heart, or liver or kidneys could allow someone to live that maybe has diabetes or something.

I don't have any problems about someone using my organs after death if they are usable, but I have some issues that hospitals can get a finders fee for harvesting them. There needs to be an incentive to get people to donate, but the hospital advising someone on what to do with a critically injured loved one's care when the hospital could be making money off the deal seems tricky to me.

Don't want the plug pulled too early if you know what I mean. I don't know how you would come up with a perfect system though.

 

I have no problems with it. I have Hepatitus C, which is blood borne. A liver transplant does not get rid of it. Not really sure of how I got it but the culprit is pretty likely my lifestyle in the late 60's and through the 70's. Snorted lots of coke up my nose, shared a needle ONCE with 3 friends, gave first aid at several accidents no gloves (probably had small cuts or scrapes on my hands), but who used them in the early to mid 70's. This one is a silent killer, as it can lie dormant for 10-40 years.

Hepatitus A is mostly food borne and responds to medication. Hepatitus B can be sexually transmitted and gotten from contact with fecal matter, (some contries were using sludge containing human waste as fertilizer, and spraying it on growing fruit and vegetables).

There are vaccines available for A and B.

 

Yeah, I have thought of getting a blood test for hepatitus just for the heck of it. I know they recommend it for more and more people these days, mostly in health care field but that is not me. I have read that other forms of hepatitus are surprisingly common in the adult population. A friend gets regular Hep screens because she is in the adult corrections field.

Once had a girlfriend who tripped a Hep screen on a blood donation and her doc said not to worry about it. That the screen tests on blood donation were to set to a low threshold. She donated some after that and it always passed the screen. I have donated once and it screened ok, but you gotta wonder what the deal was with her blood donation.

We had "Relations" but only with latex. Still, nothing is 100%.

Good health too you. BIt is soo easy to take good health for granted when you are young and invincible.