And so once again I am not well. The persistent cough and cold has not gone away. Despite the use of decongestant and chest rub, I am told by Andrew that it is getting worse. Therefore we are off up to the RVH again this afternoon. Will report back when we know more. The best update is that the Meds have been taken every day. So that is good news. Continue reading when you’re ill, take it easy
As we begin a new year, many think about the things that they can decide to do in the new year. For me some of these have already been decided. Some are very private, others are much more public.
Two of mine are ones that I want to tell you about. Continue reading “meditation: meds and myself…”
My name is Andrew, and I am living with HIV. You might think that I am HIV positive – I am not. I am living with HIV because my boyfriend*, Michael, the man I love, is HIV positive. I am living with HIV because HIV has a direct impact on my life. I am also, to some extent, living with PVL-MRSA, because Michael has that too. Today Michael had an appointment at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and his doctor took the opportunity to screen me for MRSA, because there was a chance that I was an asymptomatic carrier. It … Continue reading my name is Andrew
Well it is another day, and another visit to the hospital is over. But having been sent home from A&E in the RVH with some Linezolid, whilst watching Juliet Bravo, at some point the abscess on my cheek burst – so in the morning, it’s off up to the GUM clinic to make sure that it is just PVL-MRSA that we think it is. A fun Christmas holiday…. Continue reading another day, another visit to the hospital…
I don’t know what I have done in the past to deserve the love that is being shown to and freely given to me at the moment. I’m not feeling well at the moment – think I’m going to have to head up to the Accident & Emergency Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast this evening. I’d really rather leave it until I could head to see my consultant in the GUM clinic. I’m not sure that we can leave it that long. Life is not easy. And no one said it would be. It has certainly been … Continue reading Posting may be light…
I am HIV positive.
Just saying that brief sentence or its alternative
I am living with HIV.
gives people the opportunity to do and say the most remarkable things. Continue reading “each time you tell, you’ve no idea what you risk unleashing”
I’m writing because when you are first diagnosed as living with HIV, many people think that life is over; that there is no future. When I was first diagnosed I was one of those. So many people told me that HIV is not a death sentence Life is for living You must remain positive. And I tried to believe them – it is not always easy. But I can tell you that if you hang in there, life will bring new surprises, new friends, and new joys. It is not possible to look into the future and to know what … Continue reading The best is yet to come…. hang in there
what’s going on? Today, saw the consolidation of three blogs. To all readers of Gyronny Herald, please bear with us as we integrated positive hivblogger and Hiberno Catholic into this site. The archives of the other blogs will continue to exist online but will cease to be updated. In future, posts will be made on Gyronny Herald in order to widen the content further. Why consolidate? After my post on World Aids Day 2010, and my abandonment of anonymity on the positive hivblogger site, it was clear to me that at some point in the near future the posts that are written … Continue reading and three became one
It is only the day after World AIDS Day, and I am not the only patient that has had issues with the nursing staff in the HIV clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, this afternoon.
I cannot go into the specifics of the incident concerning another patient, but the problem that I had was that they didn’t read the notes that the doctor had made in my notes.
Well done to Lib Dem MP Stephen Gilbert! He has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons which calls on the Government to ‘introduce an evidence based approach to allow as many people as possible, regardless of their sexuality, to safely donate blood’. Openly gay himself, Stephen Gilbert has done something on World AIDS Day to call on Her Majesty’s Government to end the ban on gay and bisexual men, and their partners, being blood donors. Stephen said: As an openly gay Member of Parliament, I am a passionate believer that we must end this ridiculous and … Continue reading What have you done for World AIDS Day?
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