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Posted on January 16, 2011 by Connie

To all former members of HepSlayer Forum:

I am so sorry but after several attempts at starting the forum back up I’ve made the decision to no longer have a discussion forum.

I truly appreciate your friendship and sticking with the forum all these years.  If you would like to register here and contribute HCV articles, along with other articles of your interest I would be more than happy to have you.

My heart just was no longer in this.  I found that I didn’t even want to work on this blog that I had been thinking about doing because I felt I had to work on the forum first, and I really didn’t want to do that.  Once I made the decision to shut down the forum, I felt a burden lift.

I hope you stay in touch.

Connie

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Goodbye Dana and Jay

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Connie

I really can begin to express what a bad year last year was.  Not that it was completely a wash out, but it had its moments of complete suckyness.

It’s really hard to remember the first part of last year, I know it happened because I’m here right now.  I had to live through it, perhaps the end of the year was just too much of a roller coaster ride.

In September my husband and I received a call informing us that a dear friend of ours was just diagnosed with cancer.  I don’t guess I’ll understand why the good people get this hideous disease and the assholes of the world seem to go on forever.  Let me tell you that call was a shocker, but we knew that with Amy behind him he could fight any battle.

October was an excellent month,  we went to Las Vegas for our first time and flew my son up from Fort Worth, Texas to join us .  It was his first trip also.  I could go on and on how much I enjoyed that trip.  There were so many good times, with the highlight of the trip being 15th row center for Cher.  That night we found out that I’m a gay man in a straight woman’s body.

November 9, 2010 we got a call that was the most shocking we have ever had.  Our friend that I mentioned earlier passed away.  It was all too soon, all to sad.  You never know why, but you know that you do have to go on with your life because that’s just the way it has to be.  Without a doubt, I know that Jay is in a much better place where he has no pain and he is well.  I just hope that as time goes by Amy is able to find peace.

One of my best friends husband has also been battling cancer.  Dana had been braving a long hard battle filled with wrenching pain that no man or animal should have to endure.  Christmas Day I got the call from Becky that the end was very near.  Dana went home the afternoon of December 26, 2010.

It was such an honor to know both Dana and Jay.  I am a better person for having been a small part of their lives

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Sausage Potato Soup

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Connie

Sausage & Potato Soup

It sure looks good!!  This recipe was given to my son by his co-worker Mike.  I haven’t tried it as yet but my son says it’s excellent!!

Potato & Sausage Soup

5lbs of potatoes

2 blocks of crème cheese

2 packages of ekridge SKINLESS sausage

Shredded cheese(optional)

Bacon Bits(optional)

Tabasco (optional)

-Peel and cut up you potatoes( depending on how you want your soup is how you cut them, cut them fine if you want your soup to be thick, or bigger pieces if you want the soup runnier )

- bring Potatoes to a boil and make them soft, DO NOT DRAIN YOU KEEP THE WATER THEY BOILED IN( now here is where your decision on the thickness comes in) if you want your soup to be on the thick side get to mashing the potatoes in the water stock. And if you don’t want to do that step you can always mash them in the bowl as you are eating, I just prefer to do it while I’m cooking them.

-cut up the sausage (into fourths or whatever thickness you would like), and the cream cheese and throw them into the pot with the potatoes and the water that you did NOT drain.

-reduce heat, as soon as the cream cheese is all melted you are ready to eat to, the longer the soup sits and cools like on low heat the thicker it will become

-add cheese and bacon bits and hot sauce as you please per bowl

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Hello world!

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Connie

This is my first real attempt at blogging but it’s not my first foray into the webmaster world.   I ran a website for five years concentrating on Hepatitis C treatment and support.  It got to where my heart wasn’t into it anymore.  Running a forum became more of a task than a pleasure.  I originally planned on migrating the forum here.  I immediately was hit with a hacker that caused so much traffic I was shut down by my hosting provider.

I guess I brought that malicious script over with me, I don’t know.  I deleted the whole site to begin with a fresh start.  In attempting to move the forum over I discovered the hacker deleted all my user database.  I still installed the forum thinking the few people that wanted me to keep HepSlayer open would register.  Instead within 2 days I had over 1000 spammers attempt to register.  I had to disable registration and think about things.

I believe in signs and to me that was a sign that the forum was just not meant to move over here.  I’m so sorry to the people I’ve let down.  I came to the conclusion that I would allow comment upon registration here so hopefully those that aren’t on Facebook can keep up with each other here.

I’m also open to allowing user to be contributors, so let me know if that is something you may want to do.

My goals for this site are simple,  I just want to share my thoughts, musings, ramblings and recopies here.  Those of you that know me, know there’s no telling what I’ll say!!

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