Ambivalent
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Sorry, Drake Tyler, and John Henry. . .
I have to go to work, and cannot (at this moment) find the second part of this documentary, which is a little more hopeful. In the years AFTER those covered by this documentary, new combinations of anti-retroviral drugs did enable (and have enabled) many people infected by the HIV virus to manage their illness, as chronic illness, rather than as a definitive death-sentence, as HIV used to be. (But that management is no PICNIC - the drugs required to keep the virus at bay make some people sick; and cause organ-failure in some; and are altogether UNPLEASANT. Some people cope with them famously - a lot of other people find then to be huge burdens in life.)
But (and I hope Tampa will forgive me, for this) when he and I were your age, there was always a definite thought in our heads, that, "If this guy is infected, and I don't know it" ~ and there was never any way to KNOW IT, from looking at a guy ~ my making love to this person, now, might be my death-sentence. And nobody from my generation is ever without, that thought. (That is why SOME of us STILL GET SO UPSET, when this site features sex, without condoms.)
Drake, you are a very young man - and I hope you will watch the documentary, above, IN FULL. If you view it, and take its message seriously. . . there is no better gift I could ever give you.
Hugs,
"A" XOXOXOXOXO
I have to go to work, and cannot (at this moment) find the second part of this documentary, which is a little more hopeful. In the years AFTER those covered by this documentary, new combinations of anti-retroviral drugs did enable (and have enabled) many people infected by the HIV virus to manage their illness, as chronic illness, rather than as a definitive death-sentence, as HIV used to be. (But that management is no PICNIC - the drugs required to keep the virus at bay make some people sick; and cause organ-failure in some; and are altogether UNPLEASANT. Some people cope with them famously - a lot of other people find then to be huge burdens in life.)
But (and I hope Tampa will forgive me, for this) when he and I were your age, there was always a definite thought in our heads, that, "If this guy is infected, and I don't know it" ~ and there was never any way to KNOW IT, from looking at a guy ~ my making love to this person, now, might be my death-sentence. And nobody from my generation is ever without, that thought. (That is why SOME of us STILL GET SO UPSET, when this site features sex, without condoms.)
Drake, you are a very young man - and I hope you will watch the documentary, above, IN FULL. If you view it, and take its message seriously. . . there is no better gift I could ever give you.
Hugs,
"A" XOXOXOXOXO
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......can you feel it.........lololol
