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I entered the US Military at the age of 18 and caught Hepatitis C while serving as a medic.

My name is Valerie Green I was diagnosed with Chronic Hepatitis C genotype 2 in August 2015 at age 56 after feeling lousy for a the last 8 years.

Having been addicted to drugs and alcohol for 20 years, in 2001 I was 13 years clean and feeling pretty good about myself. I had a wonderful family and had very recently moved to Durham, NC for a new job.

I was in an airport about to fly home when my wife called and told me the diagnosis. Meyer had an autoimmune liver disease. I had no understanding of liver disease.

I was diagnosed with Autoimmune Hepatitis and stayed in the hospital for two weeks. After a year and a half in treatment, I’m now in remission.

I didn't know anything about HE until my wife was on her deathbed with liver failure and her doctor asked me about certain symptoms, observed her physical condition and provided a diagnosis.

After 2 years of testing, it was determined that I had autoimmune hepatitis. The disease had gone and diagnosed and untreated for 30 + years.

This story is about my husband with alcoholic related cirrhosis of the liver. We don’t know when my husband developed the first stage of liver disease.

I fell into End Stage Liver Disease (ESLD) from having Hepatitis C for over 30 years. I was unaware I even had Hep C for the first 19 years and got it from a blood transfusion.

By telling my story to others, I am reminded how fortunate I am. My story is a long one, but I am happy to say, as of 2015, I am finally Hepatitis C free with 100% liver function!

“I am a sixty years young grandmother of two. I was recently cured of the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection which I contracted through a medical procedure before my seventeenth birthday in 1971.

She could not have anticipated just how rapidly—over the following eight weeks—a potentially lethal form of liver disease would turn her entire family’s life upside down.