Wow... my life just got rocked!

September 19, 2006So I go to give blood at the blood drive today... No biggy since I did it last year. Allthough that wasn't alltogether a great experience either. But It's typical I signed up and went into the little booth things that they set up to get your info before you give blood to make sure you're ok. So everything's great, I gave her my I.D. she asked where I lived, what my social security number was and my date of birth. She checked and then all the sudden she told me that my record said that I can't give blood and that she didn't know why because, for privacy issues, they don't tell her why. But she did give me a number that I could call. So I went to the office and called the number. This Indian Woman picks up and we start talking and she appologizes like twenty times and says that I can't give blood and I keep asking for the reason but she keeps appologizing and all the sudden I finally get it out of her and she says that my blood tested possitive for hepatitis C !!! So asked her if it was sexually transmitted cuz that wouldn't be possible and she said no, that it is usually transmitted through blood. But anyway, I asked what it did and if it was fatal and she said no, there are medications for it, but it will always be in my blood system! So I get kinda worried and then she comforted me by saying that the machines that are used to check this are really sensitive and that that's what the machine read but it might not be that way so I'm going to need to go to a doctor to get it confirmed but just pray for me! What I think it might be is that I took ACCUTANE like my eighth grade year, it is like the most powerfull Achne medicine that you can take, and it can effect my liver and they did several test to make sure that my liver was strong enought to where I could take it and Accutane doesn't leave your blood system so I'm thinking that may be what was traced instead of the accutual hepatitis. But for real! Be prayin for me!