living with hep C part 2

Ok so now that i have more time on my hands i guess I will continue what i started with the last one. I no longer do drugs or drink and I am pretty healthy other than this disease so my liver function is still perfect even though I have been infected for several years so they are "advising" me not to get the treatment until it is fully progressed and starts becoming symptomatic or bothersome because the treatment will make me very sick almost like chemo would but my question is, since it is my choice, why can't i take care of it now while I still have a better chance to get rid of it? I am pushing them to let me do the treatments but we will see how long it takes them to give in. I think that the only reason why I am handeling this all so well is only becasue of the nurse that I had when I was diagnosed. She contracted hep c from a blood transfusion back in the 80's and is very close to being cured. She has been going through treatment for 3 years now with negative tests and after 4 years they consider you cured. Anyway, she told me as I was sitting in the office with my eyes starting to tear up, that even though it feels like it, it is not the end of the world. She said that the best piece of advice she had for me was to keep it to myself and take any necessary precautions to avoid spreading it. She told me of her friends and family becoming almost strangers to her. Not because she didnt want to be around them but becasue they didn't understand it and didn't want to be around her. She said it broke her heart but she learned her lesson doesn't want the same thing to happen to me. She has had 3 children since then and has stayed married to the same man for 32 years and none of them have contracted it so it is not as easily spread as I had always believed. Ok well for now I guess I am going to end this. I hope that my nurse's advice will help someone else in the world that is having trouble coping with this disease.