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Offline confidentIwillbeOK

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #50 on: September 12, 2009, 12:37:46 am »
Yes, all the millions who have simply vanished, due to HIV, forever forgotten.

...ah...I thought you were talking about yourself.


Offline confidentIwillbeOK

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #51 on: September 15, 2009, 11:49:20 pm »
Pozhope, I hope this works....I created a "Wordle" that visualizes all the words used in this post:

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1133956/%22One_Word%22_by_AMF_members

...I will test the link and if it doesn't work will attach a screen-print.

 :)

Steve

note: I pasted all the words into the "wordle" site that generates the image but can't guarantee they all made it into the final product.....I think they did but apologies if the generator dropped "your" word. 

Offline sharkdiver

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #52 on: September 16, 2009, 10:56:22 am »
my word

a-major-pain-in-the-ass


Offline traveltramp

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #53 on: September 16, 2009, 11:40:50 am »
Rejected
5/7 SEROCOVERSION
7/7 CD4 669
9/7 CD4 1079 V/L 1200
2/8 CD4 803   V/L 3050
4/8 CD4 805   V/L 2200
9/8 CD4 959   V/L 2418
1/9 CD4 909   V/L 550

Offline the trebmeister

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #54 on: September 16, 2009, 12:31:21 pm »
ineffable


is effable a word?
Your friends may say that I’m a stranger
My face they’ll never see no more
There is but one promise that’s given
I’ll sail on God’s golden shore

Offline Snowangel

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #55 on: September 16, 2009, 02:25:57 pm »
Confident-
The wordle was cool, thanks for creating it!

Snow
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important

The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge..

One thing you can give and still keep...is your word.

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Offline Rev. Moon

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #56 on: September 16, 2009, 07:38:51 pm »
Pozhope, I hope this works....I created a "Wordle" that visualizes all the words used in this post:


Steve, that was very neat.  Good work :)
"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Offline antibody

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #57 on: September 16, 2009, 08:39:14 pm »
Forever
Hope
Timbuk      <50/ 794  CD4 10/06 
                 <50/ 1096 CD4 3/07
                 <40/ 1854 CD4 4/09

Started Atripla  7/14/06
Switched to boosted Reyataz Truvada 3/28/07

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Offline ruralguy

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #58 on: September 17, 2009, 05:15:21 pm »
permanent
tested positive June 19, 2009
7/3/09 vrl 9000 cd4 - 300
8/14/09 cd4 - 350, 20%
started Atripla 9/14/09
10/5/09 vrl undetectable, WOW so fast!
12/28/09 vrl undetectable, CD4 - 615  27% cholesterol down, kidney function normal
4/26/10 vrl undetectable, CD4-600, kidney and liver numbers normal
9/9/10 vrl undetectable, CD4-685
1/3/11 vrl undetectable, CD4-700
all 2011 and Jan 2012 visits vrl undetectable CD4 ranged from 715-645
5/7/2012  vrl undetectable, CD4-615, all liver, kidney, lipids, heart functions, etc normal


On Atripla:  "Your mileage may vary"

Offline ruralguy

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #59 on: September 17, 2009, 05:17:20 pm »
wow Steve - the wordle is very cool

thanks
tested positive June 19, 2009
7/3/09 vrl 9000 cd4 - 300
8/14/09 cd4 - 350, 20%
started Atripla 9/14/09
10/5/09 vrl undetectable, WOW so fast!
12/28/09 vrl undetectable, CD4 - 615  27% cholesterol down, kidney function normal
4/26/10 vrl undetectable, CD4-600, kidney and liver numbers normal
9/9/10 vrl undetectable, CD4-685
1/3/11 vrl undetectable, CD4-700
all 2011 and Jan 2012 visits vrl undetectable CD4 ranged from 715-645
5/7/2012  vrl undetectable, CD4-615, all liver, kidney, lipids, heart functions, etc normal


On Atripla:  "Your mileage may vary"

Offline Miss Philicia

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #60 on: September 17, 2009, 05:21:02 pm »
Today the word is "Explosive D" but that's because I've had this every fucking morning for the past 10 days, and just today figured out it was because I had the brilliant idea of using Xylitol in place of sugar so that I could peel off 5-8 lbs to appease my sense of vanity.  Unfortunately when I bought this I didn't realize that diarrhea is a common side effect, and I guess combined with Norvir it was triple the effect.
"I’ve slept with enough men to know that I’m not gay"

Offline Rev. Moon

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #61 on: September 17, 2009, 09:04:52 pm »
Today the word is "Explosive D"

Philly, I figured that at some point someone would have to use "diarrhoea" as the word of the day :)
"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #62 on: September 17, 2009, 11:04:15 pm »
Indefinite
"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things:
     One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell.
     The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love."
- Butch Hancock, Musician, The Flatlanders

Offline isitthatbad

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #63 on: September 18, 2009, 04:14:26 am »
challenging

Offline hjeffs

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #64 on: September 18, 2009, 12:25:03 pm »
wisdom

shift

conscouise

power

change

Offline positively_me

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #65 on: September 18, 2009, 01:17:58 pm »
compromised

sucks

unwanted

undesireable

rejected
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.  - Eleanor Roosevelt

Offline megasept

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #66 on: September 18, 2009, 02:30:57 pm »
Question: What is ONE word that captures the essence of where HIV/AIDS needs to go or is today to YOU?


misunderstood (reason: stigma, fear, discrimination, recrimination, disrespect)

genes (reason: medical possibilities)

8) -megasept

Offline Assurbanipal

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #67 on: September 18, 2009, 05:31:13 pm »
Consuming

5/06 VL 1M+, CD4 22, 5% , pneumonia, thrush -- O2 support 2 months, 6/06 +Kaletra/Truvada
9/06 VL 3959 CD4 297 13.5% 12/06 VL <400 CD4 350 15.2% +Pravachol
2007 VL<400, 70, 50 CD4 408-729 16.0% -19.7%
2008 VL UD CD4 468 - 538 16.7% - 24.6% Osteoporosis 11/08 doubled Pravachol, +Calcium/D
02/09 VL 100 CD4 616 23.7% 03/09 VL 130 5/09 VL 100 CD4 540 28.4% +Actonel (osteoporosis) 7/09 VL 130
8/09  new regimen Isentress/Epzicom 9/09 VL UD CD4 621 32.7% 11/09 VL UD CD4 607 26.4% swap Isentress for Prezista/Norvir 12/09 (liver and muscle issues) VL 50
2010 VL UD CD4 573-680 26.1% - 30.9% 12/10 VL 20
2011 VL UD-20 CD4 568-673 24.7%-30.6%
2012 VL UD swap Prezista/Norvir for Reyataz drop statin CD4 768-828 26.7%-30.7%
2014 VL UD - 48
2015 VL 130 Moved to Triumeq

Offline onemoretime

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #68 on: September 18, 2009, 06:46:45 pm »
we all got some great words!     they are all so true.   Notice how much HIV still wares on us,  even though it is a treatable condition.   It sure doesn't seem that way the way it effects us all
08/04 diag 490 cd4 vl 50,000
10/25/05 436 50,513 hvb 1.1 billion
12/13/05 truvada sustiva
02/16/06 742 und, hpb 63,000
04/27/06 740 und hpb 60,000
01/05/07 458 und hvb und
03/08   470 undetectable still on atripla. Non smoking (chantex)
08/08 cd4 550 undetectable hiv, Hep B UND. Atripla
06/09  cd4 444, vl undetectable testo 130
09/09/09 CD4 687 46% UND  Testo 213 started androgel
10/12/09 cd4 682 46% und testo 597
01/12/10 cd4 842 48% und testo 434
041010 cd4 693  53% testo 492
100410 cd4 568 48% testo 523
012711 cd4 523 hcv 56 testo 596
083011 cd4 280 Hcv/HIV und
042912 cd4 158 hcv /hiv und, was on hep c for 11 months. do have ssdi filed and getting LTD
061912 cd4 151, bactrum, hep c and hiv und
071712 cd4 287 52% HIV HCV und
112012 cd4 520

Offline Rev. Moon

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #69 on: September 18, 2009, 06:52:09 pm »
Today: Indignity
"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Offline Miss Philicia

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #70 on: September 18, 2009, 06:55:44 pm »
today's word is: FAB.U.LOUS (because my diarrhea stopped enough to go see The September Issue!)
"I’ve slept with enough men to know that I’m not gay"

Offline Rev. Moon

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #71 on: September 18, 2009, 07:20:50 pm »
today's word is: FAB.U.LOUS (because my diarrhea stopped enough to go see The September Issue!)

Yay! Hope it was great (and I loved the film adaptation of 'The Devil Wears Prada').

"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Offline tash08

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #72 on: September 18, 2009, 11:06:42 pm »
Unforgiving.

Yet we need to move on, and kick its ass.
01/04/06-HIV-
03/09/06-HIV+
05/07-Atripla
04/01/10 CD4-681, VL-UD
07/10/10 CD4-450, VL-UD
10/10/10 CD4-473, VL-UD
01/21/11 cd4-522, VL-UD
05/02/11 CD4-638, VL-UD <20 copies Hell yeah!
08/3/12 CD4-806, VL-UD

Offline lidriver

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #73 on: September 18, 2009, 11:51:26 pm »
pain
struggle
re-evaluation (of life)
heart-ache
headache
sorrow

im sure there are other things.....

Offline tash08

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #74 on: September 19, 2009, 12:46:13 am »
ineffable


is effable a word?

effableDefinition from Wiktionary, a free dictionaryJump to: navigation, search
[edit] English[edit] Adjectiveeffable (comparative more effable, superlative most effable)

Positive
effable
  Comparative
more effable
  Superlative
most effable
 

(archaic) able to be spoken of; able to be expressed
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03/09/06-HIV+
05/07-Atripla
04/01/10 CD4-681, VL-UD
07/10/10 CD4-450, VL-UD
10/10/10 CD4-473, VL-UD
01/21/11 cd4-522, VL-UD
05/02/11 CD4-638, VL-UD <20 copies Hell yeah!
08/3/12 CD4-806, VL-UD

Offline sensual1973

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #75 on: September 19, 2009, 09:47:04 am »
depriving
God grant me the serenity to accept the things i can not change.

Offline onemoretime

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #76 on: September 25, 2009, 11:34:01 pm »
Mindfuck
08/04 diag 490 cd4 vl 50,000
10/25/05 436 50,513 hvb 1.1 billion
12/13/05 truvada sustiva
02/16/06 742 und, hpb 63,000
04/27/06 740 und hpb 60,000
01/05/07 458 und hvb und
03/08   470 undetectable still on atripla. Non smoking (chantex)
08/08 cd4 550 undetectable hiv, Hep B UND. Atripla
06/09  cd4 444, vl undetectable testo 130
09/09/09 CD4 687 46% UND  Testo 213 started androgel
10/12/09 cd4 682 46% und testo 597
01/12/10 cd4 842 48% und testo 434
041010 cd4 693  53% testo 492
100410 cd4 568 48% testo 523
012711 cd4 523 hcv 56 testo 596
083011 cd4 280 Hcv/HIV und
042912 cd4 158 hcv /hiv und, was on hep c for 11 months. do have ssdi filed and getting LTD
061912 cd4 151, bactrum, hep c and hiv und
071712 cd4 287 52% HIV HCV und
112012 cd4 520

Offline frenchpat

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #77 on: September 26, 2009, 03:42:50 am »
Successful!

because from life's perspective, this virus is incredibly successful at perpetuating its lineage

because that is what my meds are when keeping the virus under control. They are not perfect but if it wasn't for their success I would most probably be dead by now

because it is what we, people living with this virus, all are. By living one more day with this predicament

because it is what human beings will be one day when, like many times before, they will find a way to eliminate the virus from one's body

Pat
People have the power - Patti Smith

Offline rioz

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #78 on: September 27, 2009, 04:36:29 pm »
Hi all,

My vote is for FOREVER, today. Tomorrow it most likely will be something else.

I would also like to say I keep ALL of my friends, lovers, acquaintances and strangers known to have died of AIDS or any other disease or accident alive in my mind, memories, heart, soul or whatever you would like to perceive "it" as.

Good wishes to all,
Richard
Living with HIV since 1985
Living with AIDS since 2007

Truvada, Lexiva, Norvir, Levothyroxine, Testim, Sertraline, Crestor

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #79 on: September 27, 2009, 05:55:07 pm »
death
1997 is when I found out, being deathly ill. I had to go to the hospital due to extreme headache and fever. I fell coma like,  two months later weighing 95 pounds and in extreme pain and awoke to knowledge of Pancreatis, Cryptococcal Meningitis, Thrush,Severe Diarea,  Wasting, PCP pneumonia. No eating, only through tpn. Very sick, I was lucky I had good insurance with the company I worked for. I was in the hospital for three months that time. 
(2010 Now doing OK cd4=210  VL= < 75)
I have become resistant to many nukes and non nukes, Now on Reyataz, , Combivir. Working well for me not too many side effects.  I have the wasting syndrome, Fatigue  . Hard to deal with but believe it or not I have been through worse. Three Pulmonary Embolism's in my life. 2012 520 t's <20 V load

Offline Rev. Moon

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #80 on: September 27, 2009, 09:13:42 pm »
Terror
Disillusionment
Frailty
Consequence
Silence

Providence
Disillusionment
Nothingness
Clarity
Silence
"I have tried hard--but life is difficult, and I am a very useless person. I can hardly be said to have an independent existence. I was just a screw or a cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else."

Offline david25luvit

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #81 on: September 27, 2009, 09:35:14 pm »
NIGHTMARE!
In Memory of
Raymond David McRae III
Nov. 25, 1972- Oct. 15, 2004
I miss him terribly..........

Offline minismom

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #82 on: September 30, 2009, 06:40:56 am »
Unrelenting
www.watoto.com
www.MotherBearProject.org
"Whichever way you throw me, i will stand"
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Offline PRMike

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #83 on: September 30, 2009, 08:12:47 am »
Lonliness...  It has been really hard to find someone to love
PRMike

Offline WildcatCC

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #84 on: October 01, 2009, 03:35:45 pm »
Accountable

- I'm accountable for getting the disease
- I'm accountable for managing my disease
- I'm accountable for educating others about my disease
- I'm accountable for informing others (sexually) about my disease
- I'm accountable for my physical and mental well-being
- I'm accountable for not letting the disease define who I am and how it effects me
Apr  08 - Diagnosed
Apr  08  cd4 8, vl 150k
Meds: Prezista/Norvir/Truvada
June 08 cd4 250, vl 1600
Aug  08 cd4 275, vl 450
Meds: Atripla
Nov  08  cd4  386, vl 255
Jan   09  cd4  415, vl 2100 (spike?)
Feb   09  cd4 460, vl 212
May   09  cd4 515, vl 1200
Aug   09  cd4 717, vl 1535 % 23
Sept  09  cd4 535  vl 1710 % 18
Oct   09  genotype shows mutation. Discussing w/ ID Doc
Nov  09   cd4 480  vl 650   % 19
Dec  09 genotype slight mutation to Epivir and Retrovir
Jan 10   cd4 508 vl 250 (21%)  low vitamin d - on supplement 2000 iu/day
Mar 15 Change to Isentress and Truvada
May 5 cd4 498 vl 1485
June 16 cd4 550 vl undect!!!! (finally dammit)

Offline MarcoPoz

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #85 on: October 01, 2009, 03:41:30 pm »
For the state of HIV in society:

Obsured

For my personal connection:

Visceral

Offline clsoca

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #86 on: October 03, 2009, 02:44:36 pm »
intruder
10/07 Infected
11/07 Seroconversion
07/08 Tested Poz
07/08 VL 487  CD4 658  (No Meds)
10/08 VL 286  CD4 724  (No Meds)
01/24/09 VL 30,100   CD4 329 CD4 30% (No Meds)
02/06/09 VL 44,000   CD4 367 CD4 36%  Blood Work @ UCLA (No Meds)
02/06/09 VL 44,000   CD4 317 CD4 35% Blood Work @ USC (No Meds)
02/12/09 VL 52,000   CD4 297 CD4 29%
02/12/09  Started Atripla
04/01/09 VL 60  CD4 667   CD4 48%
06-05-09  VL UD CD4 427   CD4 39%

Offline dtwpuck

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #87 on: October 04, 2009, 08:15:17 pm »
gadzooks
Floating through the void in the caress of two giant pink lobsters named Esmerelda and Keith.

Offline mikee

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #88 on: November 28, 2009, 12:06:26 pm »
SOBER (for each morning that i wake up in disbelief and regret)

AWAKENING
(for making me realise that I, together with other  hiv+ and hiv- people alike should be responsible in taking care of our selves)

HUMAN (that are only ordinary people who commit mistakes of acquiring this disease)

HELP (to remind us to extend our hands to those who've been diagnosed recently and totally lost in space.)

FAITH (for believing that in my lifetime and those of the younger generations, the cure to completely eradicate the virus will be discovered and be made available to all infected without personal gains and injustice)
2008  - EIA nonreactive
01/09 - Probable infection
01/09 - HIV 1/2 Quali Serodia PA - nonreactive
04/09 - Seroconertion (rash,fever, tonsillitis)
05/09 - Recurrence of rash and fever
07/09 - Diarrhea Started
09/09 - Severe Seborrheic Dermatitis
10/09 - Reactive Fujerebio Serodia Particle Agglutination
11/21 - EIA - Reactive
           Fujerebio Serodia PA - Reactive
           WB - Positive (gp160, gp120, p66, gp41,
           p24, p17 bands were formed)
12/15 - cd4 = 66; vl = pending

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #89 on: November 28, 2009, 04:20:55 pm »
Gassy,
or that could be the turkey

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #90 on: November 28, 2009, 04:47:47 pm »
martini.
..which I need right now
Poz Bear Type in Philadelphia

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #91 on: November 28, 2009, 10:20:07 pm »
Death

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #92 on: November 29, 2009, 11:13:52 am »
Mindfuck

I was reading the words and the more I read the more I agreed ... then I saw Mindfuck and thought .. PERFECT ... summarizes all the rest of it for me ... HIV tosses everything into turmoil and fucks with your mind ... so my word is MINDFUCK

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #93 on: November 29, 2009, 11:24:30 am »
buttfluparade
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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #94 on: November 29, 2009, 02:55:05 pm »
''Ooops!''
Just about sums it up for me in one word.
Peacock,Steve
Diagnosed 07/01/2002
Started Haart- 25/11/04 Cd4: 205 VL: 76'500
                      19/12/08 Cd4: 623 VL: UD
      26/03/12 Cd4: 497 Cd4%: 30.10 VL: UD
Combivir and Nevirapine(200mg) x1 of each-Am & pm
Not changed Meds since starting on HAART
Green Tea,Multivit,Selenium ACE,Folic acid,Vit C,Aciclovir 200mg 5x per day for 3 days-(ONLY when I have Shingles!)
100 percent adherence-with the help of a wristwatch!

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #95 on: November 29, 2009, 03:03:05 pm »
elusive
1/86 - 6/08 (annually): neg elisa
7/09: pos elisa/pos wb
8/09: cd4 560, cd4% 35, vl 13,050
12/09: cd4 568, cd4% 33, vl 2,690
4/10: cd4 557, cd4% 29.3, vl 6,440
7/10: cd4 562, cd4% 29.6, vl 3,780

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #96 on: December 01, 2009, 02:05:23 am »
Fear

Isolation

Devastation  (both emotional and financially)

Mortality 

Suicide






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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #97 on: December 01, 2009, 02:31:20 am »


   *Appreciation*

   Of those good days....
I despise the song Love is in the Air, you should too.

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #98 on: December 01, 2009, 10:52:51 am »
abandoned  :'(

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Re: what's ONE word that captures the state of HIV/AIDS to you?
« Reply #99 on: December 01, 2009, 11:50:38 am »
Overwhelming
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin Coolidge

 


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