Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
March 19, 2024, 04:50:19 am

Login with username, password and session length


Members
Stats
  • Total Posts: 772785
  • Total Topics: 66296
  • Online Today: 290
  • Online Ever: 5484
  • (June 18, 2021, 11:15:29 pm)
Users Online
Users: 0
Guests: 226
Total: 226

Welcome


Welcome to the POZ Community Forums, a round-the-clock discussion area for people with HIV/AIDS, their friends/family/caregivers, and others concerned about HIV/AIDS.  Click on the links below to browse our various forums; scroll down for a glance at the most recent posts; or join in the conversation yourself by registering on the left side of this page.

Privacy Warning:  Please realize that these forums are open to all, and are fully searchable via Google and other search engines. If you are HIV positive and disclose this in our forums, then it is almost the same thing as telling the whole world (or at least the World Wide Web). If this concerns you, then do not use a username or avatar that are self-identifying in any way. We do not allow the deletion of anything you post in these forums, so think before you post.

  • The information shared in these forums, by moderators and members, is designed to complement, not replace, the relationship between an individual and his/her own physician.

  • All members of these forums are, by default, not considered to be licensed medical providers. If otherwise, users must clearly define themselves as such.

  • Forums members must behave at all times with respect and honesty. Posting guidelines, including time-out and banning policies, have been established by the moderators of these forums. Click here for “Do I Have HIV?” posting guidelines. Click here for posting guidelines pertaining to all other POZ community forums.

  • We ask all forums members to provide references for health/medical/scientific information they provide, when it is not a personal experience being discussed. Please provide hyperlinks with full URLs or full citations of published works not available via the Internet. Additionally, all forums members must post information which are true and correct to their knowledge.

  • Product advertisement—including links; banners; editorial content; and clinical trial, study or survey participation—is strictly prohibited by forums members unless permission has been secured from POZ.

To change forums navigation language settings, click here (members only), Register now

Para cambiar sus preferencias de los foros en español, haz clic aquí (sólo miembros), Regístrate ahora

Finished Reading This? You can collapse this or any other box on this page by clicking the symbol in each box.

Author Topic: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?  (Read 9636 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« on: February 19, 2011, 02:03:17 pm »
Can one of the admins delete my profile here. Please. ASAP
Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline Ann

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 28,134
  • It just is, OK?
    • Num is sum qui mentiar tibi?
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2011, 02:13:41 pm »
We do not delete profiles, sorry. If you no longer wish to participate in the forums, then all you need to do is simply stop reading and stop posting.

Ann
Condoms are a girl's best friend

Condom and Lube Info  

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Offline Rev. Moon

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,787
  • Smart ass faggot ©
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2011, 05:18:37 pm »
And if it is so awful in here that you no longer want to be a member, why are you still around (and logged in) three hours after you started this melodramatic thread?  Some people just love attention, eh?

Quote
drewm   05:17:08 PM   Viewing drewm's profile.
« Last Edit: February 19, 2011, 08:57:15 pm by Rev. Moon »
"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 drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2011, 05:40:35 pm »
And if it so awful in here that you no longer want to be a member, why are you still around (an dlogged in) three hours after you started this melodramatic thread?  Some people just love attention, eh?


It's not my thread. Eh
Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2011, 05:43:51 pm »
Beside's I changed my mind. It's a womans and gay mans prerogative after all.  :o
Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline woodshere

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,474
  • ain't no shame in my game
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2011, 06:28:00 pm »
So you get mad, say you are leaving, ask a question about removing your profile, find out you can't and then use the straightforward answer you were given as your signature with a snarky comment.   What's up with that?  ??? ???
"Let us give pubicity to HV/AIDS and not hide it..." "One of the things destroying people with AIDS is the stigma we attach to it."   Nelson Mandela

Offline Miss Philicia

  • Member
  • Posts: 24,793
  • celebrity poster, faker & poser
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2011, 06:35:16 pm »
then use the straightforward answer you were given as your signature with a snarky comment.   What's up with that?  ??? ???

It's called SHADE, girl.  SHADE! You get in a smart crack, and everyone laughs and kikis because you've found a flaw and exaggerated it, then you've got a good read going.

And for our Spanish readers, I've provided subtitles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpxauPMOHAM
"I’ve slept with enough men to know that I’m not gay"

Offline drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2011, 06:39:39 pm »
So you get mad, say you are leaving, ask a question about removing your profile, find out you can't and then use the straightforward answer you were given as your signature with a snarky comment.   What's up with that?  ??? ???

Sorry. I am kinda new to this fest so I have to Google some of the terms here, like snark·y/ˈsnärkē/. I am guessing from your post that you are one of those disappointed by my decision to stay. I cannot say it is my sole decision but if I am going to have a profile, I might as well stick around, besides, in between the nasty and caustic remarks tossed my way like some bad seed, some truly wonderful individuals have PM'd me, encouraged me and asked me to stay for a myriad of reasons, the least of which, they are tired of feeling out-numbered.

One thing has become abundantly clear in the last 24 hours or so on here, you can sure feel the love just as easily as the hate and self loathing. Anyway, glad you said something...I think.
Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline woodshere

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,474
  • ain't no shame in my game
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #8 on: February 19, 2011, 06:58:40 pm »
Sorry. I am kinda new to this fest so I have to Google some of the terms here, like snark·y/ˈsnärkē/. I am guessing from your post that you are one of those disappointed by my decision to stay.

To be honest i have no opinion on the the fact of whether you stay or not.  Not sure why you would get that impression.  Just because someone asks you a question or disagrees with you doesn't mean they want you to leave.  I just found it strange and somewhat a slap in the face to the forums, that you took a straightforward answer to your question and then added a snarky (sarcastic) comment to be your signature.
"Let us give pubicity to HV/AIDS and not hide it..." "One of the things destroying people with AIDS is the stigma we attach to it."   Nelson Mandela

Offline Ann

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 28,134
  • It just is, OK?
    • Num is sum qui mentiar tibi?
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #9 on: February 19, 2011, 07:02:26 pm »
Drew, I do not appreciate how you have used my honest answer to your question in your signature line - and if you do not remove my words, I will.

I gave you the same exact answer we always give to forum members when they ask the same question you did. You have not been singled out for special treatment, if that's what you think.
Condoms are a girl's best friend

Condom and Lube Info  

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Offline Rev. Moon

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,787
  • Smart ass faggot ©
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #10 on: February 19, 2011, 07:05:11 pm »
some truly wonderful individuals have PM'd me, encouraged me and asked me to stay for a myriad of reasons, the least of which, they are tired of feeling out-numbered.


How many?  One?  I always find it quite laughable that those members who embarrass themselves with a swan-song (only to stick around and flame-bait others in the process) claim to get a gazillion PMs from an invisible, unnamed number of supporters.  I guess it is supposed to give them credibility?  Sorry, but once it has been lost this is something that cannot be regained.  Your supposed fan-club would actually have to come forth and express their support publicly, and they (if they actually existed) will not do it.

Ps./ It is quite déclassé to send unsolicited PMs to other members telling them to "go F themselves."  I am sure that your supporters don't know you have been doing this, eh?  Do not worry, sugah, it has been reported.
"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

  • Member
  • Posts: 24,793
  • celebrity poster, faker & poser
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2011, 07:17:54 pm »
I swear I feel like I've read this script before.  Where are my sedatives?
"I’ve slept with enough men to know that I’m not gay"

Offline Joe K

  • Standard
  • Member
  • Posts: 5,821
  • 31 Years Poz
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #12 on: February 19, 2011, 07:19:58 pm »
I swear I feel like I've read this script before.  Where are my sedatives?

When you find them, kindly pass me a few. Thanks.

Offline denb45

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,048
  • "1987 Classic Old School POZ+"
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #13 on: February 19, 2011, 07:30:05 pm »
I swear I feel like I've read this script before.  Where are my sedatives?

I've seen this MOVIE before, and it doesn't have a happy ending   ::) drewm I do hope that you come to a happy ending w/ all this Drama  :( remember you are the one that started this thread and opened that door..
« Last Edit: February 19, 2011, 07:35:16 pm by denb45 »
"it's so nice to be insane, cause no-one ask you to explain" Helen Reddy cc 1974

Offline drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #14 on: February 19, 2011, 07:40:09 pm »
Drew, I do not appreciate how you have used my honest answer to your question in your signature line - and if you do not remove my words, I will.

I gave you the same exact answer we always give to forum members when they ask the same question you did. You have not been singled out for special treatment, if that's what you think.

Save your threats for someone more worthy. Comment removed. I know where I stand  ???
Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline Rev. Moon

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,787
  • Smart ass faggot ©
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2011, 07:47:42 pm »
I've seen this MOVIE before, and it doesn't have a happy ending

Same Script, Different Cast

[edited tiepaw]
« Last Edit: February 19, 2011, 08:05:16 pm by Rev. Moon »
"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 anniebc

  • Member
  • Posts: 6,185
  • AM member since 2003
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2011, 07:50:45 pm »
some truly wonderful individuals have PM'd me, encouraged me and asked me to stay for a myriad of reasons, the least of which, they are tired of feeling out-numbered.


Yeh, and I'm betting I could name a couple of them.

Jan
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Never knock on deaths door..ring the bell and run..he really hates that.

Offline drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2011, 07:54:41 pm »
I am glad, in a really weird way, that I discovered just how nasty this forum is before I actually need it. This, so far, has been the worst experience of having this disease. That's right FRIENDS, I have it too. Thanks so much for your warmth and understanding... ::)
Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline Matty the Damned

  • Member
  • Posts: 12,277
  • Antipodean in every sense of the word
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2011, 08:00:11 pm »
I am glad, in a really weird way, that I discovered just how nasty this forum is before I actually need it. This, so far, has been the worst experience of having this disease. That's right FRIENDS, I have it too. Thanks so much for your warmth and understanding... ::)

Awww Droodles, don't be like that! :)

You have quite the dramatic flourish, don't you?  Ever considered making a film?

MtD

Offline Jeff G

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 17,064
  • How am I doing Beren ?
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #19 on: February 19, 2011, 08:02:52 pm »
I am glad, in a really weird way, that I discovered just how nasty this forum is before I actually need it. This, so far, has been the worst experience of having this disease. That's right FRIENDS, I have it too. Thanks so much for your warmth and understanding... ::)

If there is a need the same people who you think hate you will be there to help . I know this because I have seen it many times over .
HIV 101 - Basics
HIV 101
You can read more about Transmission and Risks here:
HIV Transmission and Risks
You can read more about Testing here:
HIV Testing
You can read more about Treatment-as-Prevention (TasP) here:
HIV TasP
You can read more about HIV prevention here:
HIV prevention
You can read more about PEP and PrEP here
PEP and PrEP

Offline anniebc

  • Member
  • Posts: 6,185
  • AM member since 2003
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #20 on: February 19, 2011, 08:08:31 pm »
Drew it's really hard being nasty to those who are nice to us..maybe if you try being a little nicer to those who have been through hell to get where they are today, and to those who want to help you understand what it's going to be like when you do get sick, I certainly don't wish this on you, ..but there will be days when you do get sick, and those you have  been nasty too are the ones who are going to help you out of a bad place..just think about it, you may not need their help right now...but I wouldn't be burning all your bridges if I were you.

Jan


« Last Edit: February 19, 2011, 08:11:03 pm by anniebc »
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Never knock on deaths door..ring the bell and run..he really hates that.

Offline drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #21 on: February 19, 2011, 08:09:06 pm »
Awww Droodles, don't be like that! :)

You have quite the dramatic flourish, don't you?  Ever considered making a film?

MtD

Only with you MtD  ;)
Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline denb45

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,048
  • "1987 Classic Old School POZ+"
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #22 on: February 19, 2011, 08:10:38 pm »
That's right FRIENDS, I have it too. Thanks so much for your warmth and understanding... ::)

Oh deary......your welcomed, we all have it too, I do hope you stay around then, lots of great info as well as people here, I hope you do come to understand THIS  :) if someone has upset you here, by all means, we all want to know WHY? please give us more details  ;)
« Last Edit: February 19, 2011, 08:14:49 pm by denb45 »
"it's so nice to be insane, cause no-one ask you to explain" Helen Reddy cc 1974

Offline Matty the Damned

  • Member
  • Posts: 12,277
  • Antipodean in every sense of the word
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #23 on: February 19, 2011, 08:11:11 pm »
Only with you MtD  ;)

Well ok. But so long as there is appropriate safety gear. I don't wanna fall in.

MtD

Offline drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #24 on: February 19, 2011, 08:12:54 pm »
Drew it's really hard being nasty to those who are nice to us..maybe if try being a little nicer to those who have been through hell to get where they are today, and to those who want to help you understand what it's going to be like when you do get sick, I certainly don't wish this on you, ..but there will be days when you do get sick, and those you have have been nasty too are the ones who are going to help you out of a bad place..just think about it, you may not need their help right now...but I wouldn't be burning all your bridges if I were you.

Jan


You know Jan, I completely understand and AGREE with you but if you think that as of this moment I feel like coming here and asking anything, you are clearly mistaken. I have been raked over the coals, called "fucking dangerous" and accused of everything from "spreading the virus" to God knows what else in PM's. It's a good thing this isn't the welcome forum...hell...I would never be here and be subjected to this.

Burning bridges? I don't own a flame-thrower but it doesn't look like some peeps are going to put theirs down anytime soon now does it?


Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2011, 08:14:03 pm »
Well ok. But so long as there is appropriate safety gear. I don't wanna fall in.

MtD

No chance of that sunshine!  :D
Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline skeebo1969

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,931
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2011, 08:16:02 pm »


   Perhaps a breather is best right now, Drew...  those who have shown you support, myself included, know exactly what you expressed previously and why you have felt backed into a corner.  At this point your more or less are in the middle of a feeding frenzy and the sharks smell blood.  I would walk away at this point, not so much in defeat but as the bigger person.

   Once again, I hope you come back and if you need to talk just pm me.
I despise the song Love is in the Air, you should too.

Offline Joe K

  • Standard
  • Member
  • Posts: 5,821
  • 31 Years Poz
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #27 on: February 19, 2011, 08:21:40 pm »
So is this how we now treat new members? My comment about sedatives was I needed them, because once again a new member, very rough around the edges, upsets the forum and then gets lambasted for expressing his hurt. Is that what we have become? I believe the true power of this forum, is that we can withstand just about anything. If I remember correctly, another member recently came in and upset the forums. The same type of thing transpired, until some posters actually "listened" to the member, which allowed everyone to get a grip and accept him as new member.

This has been a very ugly event for me. It's one thing to raze a member who is only itching for a fight, quite another to kick a person when they are down. Could he have conducted himself in a better fashion? Certainly and so could a lot of other posters. Frankly I expected better from us.

Offline anniebc

  • Member
  • Posts: 6,185
  • AM member since 2003
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #28 on: February 19, 2011, 08:26:22 pm »
Quote
You know Jan, I completely understand and AGREE with you but if you think that as of this moment I feel like coming here and asking anything, you are clearly mistaken.

That's fine Drew...but things do change, when you are ready you will know where to come..and trust me the support won't just be the "wonderful" people who are sending you nice PM's...it will come from those who are not afraid to be open with you in the forums, whether or not they are with you or against you.

Learning how to debated, disagree or argue without resorting to name calling is an art, and not everyone is good at that..including me, I get angry when people attack the very people who supported me and stopped me from going under when I was first diagnosed in 2002 and when I joined the forums in 2003.

Jan
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Never knock on deaths door..ring the bell and run..he really hates that.

Offline newt

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,900
  • the one and original newt
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #29 on: February 19, 2011, 08:42:07 pm »
Stick around please

- matt
"The object is to be a well patient, not a good patient"

Offline anniebc

  • Member
  • Posts: 6,185
  • AM member since 2003
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #30 on: February 19, 2011, 08:44:07 pm »

    At this point your more or less are in the middle of a feeding frenzy and the sharks smell blood.

  

A little unfair Skeebo, Drew is not exactly innocent in all this.

Aroha
Jan :-*
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Never knock on deaths door..ring the bell and run..he really hates that.

Offline drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #31 on: February 19, 2011, 08:45:38 pm »
Lets hope something positive can come from this besides a diagnoses. If nothing else, I can certainly appreciate the passion in the posts, all of them, whether I agree with them or not. I do not have the patent on HIV/AIDS and what I don't know scares me as much as what I do but it is the hope for a cure and even better treatment that I cling to. I have lost people too. I resent being characterized as "dancing on a cloud" (and please whoever said that, don't make it personal, I am talking about a generalization).

The idea that I have not buried friends is wrong.
The idea that I have not been sick is wrong.
The idea that I think I have all the answers is very wrong.
The idea that this hurts my soul is TRUE...painfully true.

I am sitting here now remembering a friend of mine who was diagnosed back in 2003. He did not have a support system, his family disowned him...you all have probably heard this story a million times. There was nothing I could say to encourage him that there were better treatments, that this disease was no longer an automatic death sentence. The last time I saw him was on his way into South Beach The Nightclub in Houston. While on vacation with my family, two days later, I got call, he had killed himself. Otherwise healthy, he could not handle the diagnoses. When I think back to the last minute I saw him, it's frozen in my mind. I can shut my eyes and see his face. All I can think about is that the lack of hope and promise did as much for as demise and probably more than the initial diagnoses.

One thing is clear, I don't want anyone to feel under-valued or worthless in this quest. I don't want to live on an HIV/AIDS playground where we take sides. If I have come across as anything other than passionate and compassionate I sincerely apologize. Sometimes I have to shut up to hear the screaming and there has been plenty of that.

I will give it my all to better understand where you all are coming from, I only ask the same.
Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline drewm

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,248
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #32 on: February 19, 2011, 08:50:30 pm »
A little unfair Skeebo, Drew is not exactly innocent in all this.

Aroha
Jan :-*

I have an idea. Let's stop assigning blame and taking sides. It's not productive. This bitch (HIV/AIDS) has created enough ugliness without this mindless banter on and on and on about who said what and why.

Diagnosed in  May of 2010 with teh AIDS.

PCP Pneumonia . CD4 8 . VL 500,000

TRIUMEQ - VALTREX -  FLUOXETINE - FENOFIBRATE - PRAVASTATIN - CIALIS


Numbers consistent since 12/2010 - VL has remained undetectable and CD4 is anywhere from 275-325

Offline newt

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,900
  • the one and original newt
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #33 on: February 19, 2011, 08:55:20 pm »
Quote
The idea that I have not buried friends is wrong.

But good. you don't wanna go there. it was shit.

A friend of mine (neighbour once) use to days (sommat like):

"You can't know what it is to live with one leg, till you have lived with one leg. I admire them people with one leg who are gung-ho about it, it takes me out of myself, makes me pep myself up.  Sooner or later, pessimism, or realism, will set in, usually just about the time when your crutch sticks in the drain grate when you are holding two bags of shopping. Now is different but I wouldn't swap the early days for anything. I am a fighter. We have to expect the best, and the worst."

She's married to the same bloke who fell off a motor bike with her, and has two kids. But guess it could have turned out different.

- matt
"The object is to be a well patient, not a good patient"

Offline skeebo1969

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,931
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #34 on: February 19, 2011, 08:57:55 pm »
A little unfair Skeebo, Drew is not exactly innocent in all this.

Aroha
Jan :-*

I agree my wording may not be eloquent but Jan, I certainly mean you no disrespect.

(((hugs)))
I despise the song Love is in the Air, you should too.

Offline Cliff

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,645
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #35 on: February 20, 2011, 02:16:50 am »
Glad you're sticking around D.  If for nothing else, we could use more Houstonians around here!  As I probably didn't say it before, welcome!
« Last Edit: February 20, 2011, 02:19:29 am by Cliff »

Offline wolfter

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,470
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #36 on: February 20, 2011, 06:29:15 am »
I PM'd Drew, not because of feeling outnumbered, but because I felt that he didn't understand the dynamics of this forum.  He obviously sought out support and though I don't always agree with him, I want him to receive the support that the awesome members here can offer. 

I didn't exactly fit in when I first joined, and I had to realize I was the new kid on the playground.  I still to this day don't understand the humor that some people use but have learned to smile about it.  I guess we all use a different arsenol of tools.
Being honest is not wronging others, continuing the dishonesty is.

Offline Dachshund

  • Member
  • Posts: 6,058
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #37 on: February 20, 2011, 07:15:00 am »
The thing the welcoming committee hasn't grasped is after they send their PM it usually gets forwarded to the person they are talking about. With a "see so-and-so says you're bad" attached.

Offline roy100

  • Member
  • Posts: 124
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #38 on: February 20, 2011, 09:14:27 am »
Stay, you will need the help.
I have also received my shower of caustic remarks, I understand it, most of us have been in a roller coaster  emotionally and are very passionate in their believes.
Others just have that sense of humor its just the way they are.

But when time comes of giving you advice on VIH , everybody helps.

I can have my own faults I admit it, but I do really try to help others.
Regards
Roy.
Diagnosed 18Th March 2010
March 30Th VL +100,000 CD4 46
CD8T  575 CD8 %60.6
On Truvada and Kaletra. . Remeron 15mg  and150 mg  wellbutrin xl for depression. Clonazepan 2 mg to sleep. Omeprazole 20  once a day.
July 17 2010 Vl 362 CD4 155, 6.4 %
CD8T suppressors 1482 CD8% 61.1
 Nov 16 2010: V l 937 CD4 188,10%
CD8T Suppresors 997 CD8%55.8
August 15th 2011 Vl UD, less than 40.
CD4:543(26.7%) CD8:887 (43.6 %) Ratio .61
Jan 14th,2012 ,less than 40.
CD4:478 (24.4%) CD8: 962 (49.1%) Ratio.50
June 2012 CD4 599, CD8 856 UD
Oct 2013 CD 702, CD 843 UD Ratio:.87

Offline AlanBama

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,670
  • Alabama: the 'other' 3rd World Country!
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #39 on: February 20, 2011, 04:43:37 pm »
Stick around, we're not all so bad.   Jan is the only one of us with a halo and wings, and even HER wings molt sometimes   ;D


PS  I really can picture Jan with wings and a halo; of course, she would have a helmet and a sword too..... ;)
"Remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others." - The Wizard of Oz

Offline aztecan

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,530
  • 36 years positive, 64 years a pain in the butt
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #40 on: February 20, 2011, 06:44:57 pm »
Stick around, we're not all so bad.   Jan is the only one of us with a halo and wings, and even HER wings molt sometimes   ;D


PS  I really can picture Jan with wings and a halo; of course, she would have a helmet and a sword too..... ;)

And a brass brassiere. ;D

HUGS,

Mark
"May your life preach more loudly than your lips."
~ William Ellery Channing (Unitarian Minister)

Offline denb45

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,048
  • "1987 Classic Old School POZ+"
Re: HOW DO I REMOVE MYSELF AND PROFILE FROM THIS WEB-SITE?
« Reply #41 on: February 20, 2011, 06:48:55 pm »
And a brass brassiere. ;D

HUGS,

Mark


I picture Jan as being & looking somewhat like one of the VALKYRIES along w/ the brass brassiere, Sword Shield, and I must say, I have the utmost respect for  ;)
« Last Edit: February 20, 2011, 06:53:00 pm by denb45 »
"it's so nice to be insane, cause no-one ask you to explain" Helen Reddy cc 1974

 


Terms of Membership for these forums
 

© 2024 Smart + Strong. All Rights Reserved.   terms of use and your privacy
Smart + Strong® is a registered trademark of CDM Publishing, LLC.