Monday, August 28, 2006

Hepatitis C and Drinking

While I drank steady from 18-40, from light to finally desperate, I did a lot of other none too bright things. Starting with 18-25 with a needle in my arm for heroin. Then there are the tatoos and the ear piercing. These last three activities are skin evasive activities and Hep-C is a blood borne pathogen. I ended up having to do the Peg-Intron and Ribovarin 5 years sober or 20 years after my last needle/inking/ear-pierce. If you have engaged in any of these activies also - then it may be in your best interested to have yourself checked. Did you also know that HIV is blood borne too?

Steve B.

Friday, August 04, 2006

Hepatitis STD

Let's say whoever is giving the handjob has any kind of bodily fluid on their hands (semen, blood, vaginal fluid, fecal matter, even saliva--yes, certain strains of Hepatitis are passed through all bodily fluids including saliva)--and the infected hand comes into contact with your penis which not only has a hole, but also could have a cut or abrasion unknown to you. If the infected matter is passed from the hand to the hole or cut/abrasion, you leave yourself open to possibly catch something. Also, if the person's hand has any kind of sore--and I don't mean, huge gaping flesh wounds here, I'm talking even little sores like hangnails that bled, or a scab that got picked, the sore may come into contact with either A., your bodily fluids therefore transferring a possible disease, or B., the hole or sore on your penis, therefore possibly transferring a disease. Do your research and become educated, do not listen to people who tell you that it is impossible to catch an STD from a handjob--if you look closely, one of the replies you got before mine states something like "It's impossible to get an STD from a handjob..." Then, shortly after that, the person changes their mind and says "Oh...wait a minute...well, unless you have a sore etc..." Also, herpes and genital warts are well known to develop on the palms on the infected. These are also very easily transferred through a handjob. Hope this helped.