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