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Fine Day on the Water
Stephanie Warwick of Stelly’s secondary sits ready in the stroke seat of the Victoria City Rowing Club’s Junior B girls quad prior to their race in the B.C. Championships-Challenge West Regatta at Elk Lake on Friday (July 10). The boat, with rowers Cailin Jenkinson, Amanda Mackenzie and Adelyn Thompson, finished third in their Friday heat and fourth in the final on Sunday.
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Saanich man moves from transplant to triathlon Liver transplant recipient focused on Self Transcendence Travis Paterson News Staff
It was back in 2005 that Steve Farmer suddenly felt ill. His belly swelled to an alarm-
ing size, and the symptoms quickly led to a diagnosis of a failing liver. He wasn’t an alcoholic. What he learned, was that he’d been living his adult life with Hepatitis C, for perhaps 25 years. Ten and a half years later, Farmer is going to the World Transplant Games (in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Aug. 23 to 30) for the first time, and is scheduled to do the Self Transcendence Triathlon on Aug. 2 at Elk Lake.
“[Looking back] I was tired at times but I chalked that up to being tired,” said Farmer, who co-owns Associated Sheet Metal in the Keating industrial area. “And I learned a lot. Hep C gets a stigma around it that’s really untrue, it’s mostly everyday people who have it. A lot are baby boomers, which is why it’s so important for baby boomers to get checked.” With a liver functioning at 10 per cent,
Farmer was put on the list for a transplant. It took a year to get, and then another three years to recover fully. “Once your transplant takes then you can begin the 72-week Interferon [Hep C] drug treatment, which is brutal, like having chemotherapy. Awful flu symptoms go on and on.” PLEASE SEE: Transplant recipient, Page A9
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