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Main Forums => I Just Tested Poz => Topic started by: tucker on January 14, 2008, 02:46:57 pm

Title: Yet another lurker, coming out of the shadows...
Post by: tucker on January 14, 2008, 02:46:57 pm
Hey ya'll...
           
         I have been reading these boards and getting a lot of emotional support from reading all of your stories.  It truly does help to know there are (unfortunately) so many people in the same boat.  My story is pretty unremarkable... unsure when I was exposed (I speculate a lot, but that's all it is).  More than likely it was some time in the past 18 months... I was just out of a relationship and tested preliminarily positive 9/12/07, which was a real shock, and it was confirmed 10/1/07.  Only one set of labs so far, with cd4 504 vl 40,000.  I am uninsured and self employed, which is scary, but have been hooked up with a local clinic with a great doctor for now, and not on any meds yet.  Anyway, that's bout it.  Oh, I am a 30 year old gay male in North Carolina, just FYI.  I am glad to have found a place with caring people from a variety of backgrounds, and will more than likely be joining in some of the discussions from here on out. 
Title: Re: Yet another lurker, coming out of the shadows...
Post by: thunter34 on January 14, 2008, 02:56:19 pm
Hey there, Tucker!  Welcome to the boards, buddy.
Title: Re: Yet another lurker, coming out of the shadows...
Post by: leatherman on January 14, 2008, 03:18:34 pm
as a displaced North Carolinian living with the Yankees in Ohio, let me say welcome too.  ;D

mikie
Title: Re: Yet another lurker, coming out of the shadows...
Post by: tucker on January 14, 2008, 04:19:00 pm
Thanks, glad to meet you guys!  I grew up in New England, so I miss the cold weather... we have not had a good snow in several years now, at least in the Raleigh area.  I am keeping my fingers crossed for this year, but it does not look good so far.  ;)
Title: Re: Yet another lurker, coming out of the shadows...
Post by: anniebc on January 14, 2008, 04:27:33 pm
Hi tucker

Welcome to the forums..if you want snow come to New Zealand (the South Island) around June/July..we can guarantee you mountains of the stuff... ;)

Hugs
Jan
Title: Re: Yet another lurker, coming out of the shadows...
Post by: A_Park_ORL_GUY on January 15, 2008, 08:21:30 pm
Hello,
I just signed up to the boards and well I have been poz for yrs. And I got to tell you it still a shocker at times as to the folks whom are not aware of the ABC's of life and sex and it's risks
If ever you want to ask some thing I will tell you my opinon and weather I got facts or history of my own to back it up.
Yet remember it is my opinion and my opinion only. Not to be mis-con-screwed as what to do or to pass on.
I got the final good extendsive test results to being POZ in Feb 89
Yet I am sure I know when I got it
Thanks for letting me voice to ya all
Title: Re: Yet another lurker, coming out of the shadows...
Post by: jabez on January 16, 2008, 12:46:13 am
From another Southerner, welcome to the board!!  I'm glad you found us.  Here's to health & long life for all of us.

Jabez
Title: Re: Yet another lurker, coming out of the shadows...
Post by: bosco on January 21, 2008, 05:53:05 pm
Welcome to the forum...geographicly we're next door neighbors...since I live in Georgia. Although I grew up in the midwest and miss the snow, not the bitter cold.
Title: Re: Yet another lurker, coming out of the shadows...
Post by: next2u on January 27, 2008, 07:19:48 pm
similarities --> yea!

hey tuck tuck tuck tuckER!! okay, enough of the silliness. just wanted to send you a big HEYYYY (i gotta get you a pic of the ghetto tooth fairy). oh, yeah, similarities. i know this is minor, but what the heck. im 30, not on meds, and tested poz on sept 12 2007.

how you been? how is life as an ex lurker?