My Gut Feeling: Nausea & Digestive Issues with Hepatitis C
Have you suffered from nausea and other digestive issues connected to your hep C? I am one of the unlucky …
Daryl Luster
The Criminalization of Drug Use: Part 3
Read Part 1 here Read Part 2 here Part 3: A Better Path Ahead The stigmatization of …
A New Year
As many of us often do, we take the turn of year as an opportunity to look back on …
One More Time, With Feeling: Long-Term Health Issues After Hepatitis C
Once again, or one more time. However you choose to say it, I get it. After beating hep C years …
Travel and Chronic Illness
Unless you don’t travel at all, you are eventually going to face the challenges of traveling with chronic disease …
Against The Wind
Do you ever feel like you are struggling to move forward? Does it feel like every task (even walking or …
The Criminalization of Drug Use: Part 2
Read Part 1 here Part 2: Marijuana for Medical and Recreational Use With so many jurisdictions legalizing the use …
Here We Go Again: Dealing with Chronic Illnesses
Well, here we go again, with some new health issues. Are my health issues related to my hep C? I …
The Criminalization of Drug Use: Part 1
Part 1: Withholding Access to Pain Management Drugs In my work, an experience has become evident: people are being denied …
Hep C and Drugs
On the topic of drug use (current or past drug), we see some deep divisions in community, and diverse …
It’s My Life To Live
When I write, I draw inspiration from my everyday life, this is no exception. This time, it was something someone …
Encouraging News
We can cure hep C. This is not new information for many of you, but for some, this may …
Giving Up
Is it ever a good idea or time to give up? Accounting for my own dogged determination, my answer is, …
The Company We Keep
“The company we keep”: Another gem from the past, an idiom rarely heard now because it is generally believed to …
The Crux
By no means is this meant to be the final word on hep C, or anything else as the title …
Being Your Own Hero
We are all familiar with heroes, whether we know one ourselves, or simply hear or read about people perform heroic …
More Harm Than Good: Negative Healthcare Experiences
When we hear about “harm reduction”, it is used in the context of safety and prevention, and being infected with …
The Extremes
In a world of extremes, like we see in sports and politics, it’s not so strange to look at the …
A Common Concern: What Are the Side Effects of Treatment?
This is a question I hear a lot from people who are starting their hep C treatment. It is a …
What’s the Problem?
Well, I want to tell you what the problem is, and it isn’t good either. The problem: Whatever you are …