Aside from a liver transplant HEP C is not treatable after a few years, there are some treatments similar to those for HIV/AIDS, but at the point I am at they aren't effective and could be fatal. I had a major event where I lost 3 liters of blood a little more than a year ago, that makes me inelegible for the treatments. So realisticly I have a limited amount of time left. How much is up to me and the doctors and when I become sick enough to be eligible for a liver transplant. No I don't regret anything that I have done in the past and (borrowing the lyrics of "Where Is My Life" by Ken Saydak)"I really can't complain. If I could do it over there's a damn good chance I screw it up again."

When I was in the ER last year I had a real close encounter with death, not the first and not the last if it were I wouldn't be here typing this.........obviously. You just have to take a philosophical approach....life is terminal and nobody gets out alive, you just have to do what you can between the beginning and the end. I've been down the tunnel more than once and just keep shutting off that damn light's switch, and walking back. I wasn't scared for myself as much as for my wife and son. The year before when I thought I was going to lose my wife in surgery or to cancer and I was more scared of losing her than I was when I was the one who might have died. Well let's not dwell on this it tends to make some become maudlin. Live life to the fullest, and have NO REGRETS.