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Note: My husband, Scott Thomas Fenton, enlisted in US Navy in 1979; trained with distinction as a sonar technician; served on the USS VALDEZ.
While on active duty, during a cruise aboard the VALDEZ in the Indian Ocean, he was admitted to a Navy hospital in Rota, Spain, for a routine test, and was put in an open ward with hepatitis patients and subsequently contracted hepatitis C himself. Eighteen years later, on July 13, 1999, after surviving treatment for liver cancer (a direct result of the prolonged hepatitis), he received a cadaverous liver transplant at MCV Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. (So far, so good, thank God!)
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