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Looking within.(HIV treatments)
Publication: Research Initiative/Treatment Action! Publication Date: 22-SEP-05 Author: Sahm, John
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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Center for AIDS: Hope & Remembrance Project
My story begins in 1990 when a doctor suggested that my ailing partner and I get tested for HIV. David's health had been poor for many months--I am not sure why we did not think to test; perhaps we were living in denial. At testing, David had around 100 T cells and I had around 400 (the scientist in me will quote medical markers often). We had just moved to Houston from Kansas and though an AIDS diagnosis offered little hope in 1990, the fact that we were in the big city with good medical resources gave us some hope. Almost all of our new friends and acquaintances would now come from the HIV world, and this continues to be the case for me to this day. The first thing testing positive taught us was that it was time to stop fussing about all the unimportant things in life and start having more fun. We began to travel as often as we could. I was taking way more vacation time...
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