This video has been put together by a fellow contaminated blood campaigner and friend of mine, Richard. It contains contributions from a number of friends, many of whom are tragically no longer with us.
It is disturbing but essential viewing if you are interested in the unnecessary infection of thousands of bleeders like me, through our NHS treatment.
Please take the time to watch and share it where possible.
Please do take a look around if you've not been here before - it can be a bit full on in a blood and gory kinda way but hopefully you'll get a little flavour of what it is like to be a woman with a bleeding disorder - von Willebrand's type 3 - and chronic fatigue.
I don't just describe the bleeding awful bits but include anything that I'm inspired to write about - or as I like to call them - Rosi's random ramblings.
Enjoy. And remember your tissue to mop up the blood ...
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I am a 40 year old woman with type III von Willebrands disorder. I live in Worcestershire in the UK with my husband Ade and two cats (Smudge and Flash). I give myself clotting factor injections at home when I have a bleed. I contracted Hepatitis C through contaminated blood products, probably when I had my very first factor injection at only a few months old. I have had two courses of treatment for Hep C - 12 months of interferon in 1999 and 6 months of pegalated interferon and ribavirin in 2002/3. Both courses of treatment were horrendous. The first lot was unsuccessful and the second one luckily worked. My blood has tested negative for Hep C ever since. However since the interferon treatment I have been left with a 'tendency' as my doc put it, to have periods of post-viral / chronic fatigue. I believe this is linked to the treatment but that is only my opinion.
The only other things you need to know about me are that I am adopted (from the Isle of Man when I was three months old), that I make really good flapjack, banana cake and chocolate brownies (orders welcome), and that my favourite way to pass the time is a good old chin wag with my friends and family ...
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