THE SILENT KILLER STRIKES AGAIN and AGAIN

ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 17, 2007 at: myspace.com/yourspacehcv

It has been my goal to make awareness if not fun at least not boring. The main point being that people are suffering from Hep C on a catastrophic level – 200 million (200,000,000) people around the globe are infected. Pandemic means out of control on a world wide level. Hep C is a pandemic disease. It affects everyone from drug user to Surgeon and everyone in between, above and sideways. No one is left out of Hep C's reach.

Ya'll have been great by embracing the cause on your own and passing info along to friends. So now it is the holiday season. I should be if not quiet at least festive. Well folks Hep C just doesn't give a shit about the holidays and has claimed two friends within a week of each other. Marc Perry spoke at Debbullan's awareness event Everything Is Possible 2007. The mp3 will play automatically by visiting Your Space HCV or can be downloaded [see] below. Last night (December 16th) Marc's battle with Hep C ended. With a peaceful look on his face he looked at his wife and said: "I love you" and then died.

Last week (December 12) Darin Edelhauser died from complications directly caused by Hep C. Darin had already beat the disease through treatment but he was so used to feeling like crap because of the disease, then the treatment and then being sick in post treatment he ignored symptoms of a heart attack that would have any of the rest of us calling the doctor in a heart beat (no pun intended). Everyone else was so used to either feeling or hearing about the side affects of treatment no one that read Darin's question posted on Hep C support groups …"does anyone else feel this way?" thought…man you are having a heart attack get to the doctor! I read it after the fact. The symptoms he posted were classic heart attack symptoms. Hep C killed him as surely as I am breathing.

So here's the thing folks and the lesson comes right in the holiday season when we really don't want to hear about it…You don't have to have Hep C to be affected by it. I don't have Hep C and I have not sobbed in sorrow in so long a time until I heard Darin was lost because of it. Darin's wife and family do not have Hep C. But their world has been forever changed by it. Marc Perry's Wife and family do not have Hep C. They sat beside and held Marc as he died of it. Marc was in discussions for a record contract before the cancer directly caused by Hep C made him too sick to continue. His talent in music is lost to the planet because of Hep C.

Readers...friends, if you don't have Hep C, let your family and friends know the disease needs voices. Too many are sick. Too many are dying. For these stories that you do hear there are millions you are not hearing because most victims have been shamed into not speaking out. Millions are ashamed of a disease that does hold a life expectancy. Help speak for them until they can feel safe to speak out more on their own. Too many people just don't understand that a difference can be made if we all say it needs to be...until we all say "ENOUGH." together.

Do this and if you want to make even more of a difference just ask me how.

Nancy Ann Gelzinis

Founder and President

Debbullan Inc

Debbullan@cs.com

THE SILENT KILLER STRIKES AGAIN

Marc Perry Said “Don’t end up like me…” Check the below link in order to listen the speech Marc Perry gave from the stage of Everything Is Possible 2007 as he helped raise mass awareness of Hep C. Included in the 3 minute speech Marc talks of his fight with cancer directly caused by Hepatitis C.

Two months after the awareness event Marc died.

marc.perry_speech_eip07.mp3 4.1 Mb

Hep C is the leading blood borne virus in the world infecting 200 million people. A significant amount of people do not know they are victim of the disease...in the US over 60%.

What can you do to make a difference? Shoot a quick Email to me and ask.

Peace and Health

Nancy Ann Gelzinis

Founder and President Debbullan Inc.

Debbullan@cs.com

Everything Is Possible 2007 - Wrap Up

Since 1989 when the disease received a name victims have been taught to be silent. What I can never wrap my mind around is how over 200 million people in this world that have a disease that does hold a life expectancy can remain silent. Hepatitis C does kill. It kills slowly and 80% of the time there are absolutely no signs or symptoms someone is infected until damage is done to the liver, then ya get some symptoms. How do people remain silent? Other people say they must or be subject to ridicule. Ignorance is dangerous.

So the first thing Everything Is Possible 2007 planned to do is raise voices and it did. Beginning October 2006 it was not long before musicians from Belgium, Spain, Italy, France, Mexico, Ireland and around the US, all said they wanted to be here. They all pledged their performances. They all agreed if a sponsor would pay their travel and hotel they would proudly advertise the sponsor in a variety of ways.

Many other people jumped up and said yes. People from around the world created and posted banners on their personal pages showing their support for the event. Everyone agreed that if a sponsor would support a band's travel and hotel stay they would fly a banner that showed that sponsor's name.

Sons of Hermann in Dallas Texas donated the venue: The Grand Hall of SOH is listed as a Landmark in Historic Registries as well as the best venue for live music in multiple years by readers of the largest "what's happening?" newspaper in Dallas, The Dallas Observer.

In early June, 2007 we have the support by the public necessary to enlist sponsors: Banners are not only flown, bulletins, blogs and emails were sent by a growing force of people asking for other people to do the same. Viewers of banners grows 10 thousand people a week for months. Sponsorship solicitation begins by Debbullan Inc. Corporations in the music business are approached for sponsorship: Manufacturers of equipment, record labels, recording studios and more. Corporations in the health industry were approached (no pharmaceutical companies were approached). Transportation leaders were approached. Internet as well as Corporations in the private sector…In the end three responses were received, we were ignored by the rest. The answer…no, no, no.

BUT Everything Is Possible 2007 had to go on because people around the world were excited about it. NEVER have people around the world rallied for just one aspect of Hep C, in this case awareness. Simple awareness. That was the full reason for Everything Is Possible 2007. Hep C exists but is ignored. Hep C kills but is ignored. Hep C affects a world population but is ignored. Hep C affects 200 million people worldwide but does not compete in proactive attention as the next most formidable blood borne virus, HIV does (affects 33 million people worldwide). People stepped up to say they wanted to see this changed. So without sponsorship of any corporation two bands from Belgium, one from Spain and many bands from around Texas along with one musician from Tennessee converge on Sons Of Hermann. The music was outstanding. Everything Is Possible 2007 is complete. It's in the books. It was reported in Newspapers and on Radio in both Belgium and Spain. With multiple press releases submitted to US media, the story was never picked up.

Keep talking about it 'cause we aint' done. Stories were told tearfully over and over again by people that were touched by the enormity of this unspoken disease during their involvement with Everything Is Possible 2007. In talking about it they learned someone they know has the disease and has never spoken of it or has lost someone very close to the disease or has a loved one that is a victim to Hep C. Some learned the problems they face dulled when compared to the problems people with Hep C face.

Thanks to absolutely everyone around the world that was a part of this beginning. We're working on offering the recording of the entire 12 hours of the event.

A panoramic and artistic presentation of all the performers and speakers at Everything Is Possible 2007 can be viewed on explorer at this address: http://www.debbullan.org/EIP07ALL.jpg

Peace and Health