http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/ Hep-Cats: Another, Non Fashionable Disease, Blogsperiment. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:25:04 PDT http://www.blogdrive.com Copyright 2008. Health & Medicine Illnesses People http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/archive/16.html Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:23:59 GMT Stuart Hunter , Canwest News Service Published: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based specialist, who daily treats the "epidemic" of patients with hepatitis C, voiced on Tuesday his disappointment with the provincial government for denying coverage for life-saving treatments. Epidemiologist Dr. John Farley said Pharmacare is wrongly denying patients coverage for antiviral drugs which can cure the disease. About 50,000 people in B.C. have the disease, with an estimated 300 new cases daily. "Every day in my clinic, we see new cases - I am a little disappointed with the... (more) http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=16 http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/archive/15.html Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:29:47 GMT Longs days and little to show, his reasons don't matter, it shouldn't happen, not if the world were really kind and evolved, but maybe we're not evolving, maybe we're devolving My dog, the natural scavenger watches the human forage for scraps, while himself well fed and well housed, steps away from a full bowl of kibble and treats. What kind of society makes it illegal for humans to let a dog be homeless, unfed or otherwise un-cared for, yet finds it acceptable that humans are homeless, hungry and deprived of respect and companionship. A homeless person is somehow fit to... (more) http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=15 http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/archive/14.html Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:23:25 GMT excerpt: So life goes on. I feel badly much of the time that I cannot find the energy to join in more with family functions or attending functions. I'd like to plan a night of visiting art galleries, I really would, but if I am lucky enough to find the energy to make a warm meal and actually eat some too, all I want with what's left of my day is to sit, think, play with my pets and water the plants that constitutes my paradise. Because it doesn't take a lot of energy and because it does take my mind off pain and the general boredom of my cookie cutter sameness days, I like to edit the... (more) http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=14 http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/archive/13.html Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:38:58 GMT The shakes, the anxiety, etc.... Why not test and rule out, brain MRIs, a Chagas test? Bureacrats, when will my Urology Procedure be pushed up next? 2010? Oh yeah the ORs are now Olympic Housing. Reminds me of Calgary, Barclay Flakes, the guys on it talking about renting out part of the studio as prime olympic housing because it was being done everywhere. http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=13 http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/archive/12.html Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:45:58 GMT Yes! Clinton testify at the Aids conference! Where you all ignore Hep-C and other diseases and forms of death, ah how you, William Jefferson Clinton provided Aids victims in Sudan with a bombing of a their medicine factory! [More] http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=12 http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/archive/11.html Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:52:31 GMT britepic_id = "299429" britepic_src="http://static.flickr.com/57/200891516_2750ba1085_o.jpg"; britepic_keywords="outdoors%2Clife%2Cnot%20as%20advertised%2Cadvertised%2Coutside%2Creal%20life%2Cliving%2Cphotos%2Cphotography%2Cimage%2Cimages%2Cvancouver%2Cdisabled%2Cmarriage%2CMarried%2CWedding%2CWeddings%2CCumpulsary"; britepic_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aletteke/200891516/"; britepic_show_ads="1"; britepic_caption="Must%20Get%20Married%3F"; a cartoon based on my personal experience http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=11 http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/archive/10.html Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:08:03 GMT britepic_id = "299429" britepic_src="http://static.flickr.com/66/197833417_e7f55f7e1d_o.jpg"; britepic_keywords="outdoors%2Clife%2Cnot%20as%20advertised%2Cadvertised%2Coutside%2Creal%20life%2Cliving%2Cphotos%2Cphotography%2Cimage%2Cimages%2Cvancouver%2Cdisabled%2Coutdoors%2Coustide%2Csun%2Cday%2Cmy%20day"; britepic_href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aletteke/197833417/"; britepic_show_ads="1"; britepic_caption="My%20Day%20In%20The%20Sun"; It was a lovely warm day here today. Warm enough that I felt as normal people do, without a need to heat myself up through... (more) http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=10 http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/archive/9.html Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:16:46 GMT The Calgary SUn/Canoe.ca -- By CP OTTAWA -- The Conservative government will soon announce more than $1-billion of funding for uncompensated victims of the tainted-blood scandal. An internal government communications plan shows Health Minister Tony Clement was scheduled to "announce the framework agreement on Hep C" in Toronto last week. [More] http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=9 http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/archive/8.html Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:03:51 GMT britepic_id = "299429" britepic_src="http://static.flickr.com/46/140968070_35a1c95262.jpg?v=0"; britepic_keywords="outdoors%2Clife%2Cnot%20as%20advertised%2Cadvertised%2Coutside%2Creal%20life%2Cliving%2Cphotos%2Cphotography%2Cimage%2Cimages%2Cvancouver%2Cdisabled%2Coutdoors%2Coustide%2Csun%2Cday%2Cmy%20day%2Caquarium%2CBaluga%2CWhales%2CEating%2CFish"; britepic_href="http://my.opera.com/alettames/blog/show.dml/341778"; britepic_show_ads="1"; britepic_caption="I%20Am%20Not%20A%20Whale%20And%20Couldn%27t%20Possibly%20Eat%20That%20Much%20Fish%21%21"; britepic_width="500"; ... (more) http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=8 http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/archive/7.html Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:41:56 GMT Sadly in the life of people with a mental illness there is no treatment option other than truly toxic drugs. Drugs with side effects so destructive no one would take them for any other illness, but if you are mentally ill you are not given choices and often you are not competent enough to make informed decisions either. All of that and very often the mental illness is not properly diagnosed, many diagnosis are come upon in ER after a ten minute chat with a psychiatry resident. Many mental illnesses do not require, and can actually be made worse by anti-psychotic drugs. Most... (more) http://hepcats.blogdrive.com/comments?id=7