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Thanks Jon , really appreciated your frankness about being a LTS . Though I myself was diagnosed in 1990 a year after I bottomed out of the slow suicide drinking and drugging was dragging me through . I'm grateful for the 23 extra years I've lived , moving here to Provincetown with a 2 year Drs. sentence . Wish we had something similar here , funding for programs isn't focused on the dinosaurs like me . PS Recognize you from NYC , glad to see you're doing this work .
I am currently attending LTS and it is a balm to my concerns about aging with H.I.V. and finding friends in a community of men in a similar situation i.e. feeling isolated and lacking socialization opportunities. I am half way through the program and I highly recommend it. Thank you.
I am a heterosexual, 62 yrs. old, male,Hispanic. Your piece touched on many aspects that we all long-term survivors do experience, but is not just the gay people, it is also the "straight" one. As one straight long-term survivor question why programs like this one are not made accessible to other AIDS populations? Luis, MRC
Yes, I am beginning to understand why so many long termers are giving up I've been recklessly neglected by 5 doctor, serious life threatening neglect by 2 doctors and no doctors even cares. I survived 30 years and full blown aids and I feel disposable that my life means nothing. Doctors that failed to diagnose c diff then covered up their mistake. 3 years of hell that could of been avoided by a simple test and antibiotics. Aids was easier than these last 4 years. I'm too old for this shit!
Totally agree with valerie. Im going on 27 yrs hiv pos turning 60 this year. Lost my husband in 1988 and my sister in 1993. Im still here living alone and dealing with the aging process. Sucks and there are no LTS groups in tampa fl for us who are still fighting the battle. Its not just a A GAY ISSUE its EVERYBODY'S ISSUE. STRAIGHT OR GAY..we r the mothers who had to raise our children no matter how sick we were..we dont get a big HEY U DID GOOD BY SURVIVING..and yes we r still here too.
The worst of HIV in my early 60's is having lost all my closest friends. Living with uncertainty, knowing the never-ending party of the 70's was gone, plus indignities at every corner was okay when we had the common bond of each other to shake it off with. Family is a bond too, but even now, breathe anything aids related and eyes go askance. Sharing, even the early years of the nightmare, laughing to keep from crying, laughing at each other and oneself is what carried me through....
Thank you for this will print out LTS means so many things that only LTS know about, there is no one else. All my support has either died , suicide not related to HIV of course
Mike
Reading this article sent shivers of truth up and down my spine. We need programs like this one in the Ft. Lauderdale Fl area. Why do we enjoy a very large gay community while very little in support is available?
May 11, 2015