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2018 stigma still here! went to a dentist for "same day dentures". Doc (DMD) comes in, starts the IV that will put me to sleep, picks up my chart... sees that I'm HIV+ and starts screaming at me. Before I passed out, I explained that I'm healthy, elite controller, thinking he was worried about my ability to deal with oral surgery. looked up his bio... "VERY ACTIVE IN HIS MORMON CHURCH" . #1, the doctor didn't look at my chart before starting, #2. a year later, I'm stiill having nightmares
HIV POSITIVE PEOPLE MAKE GOOD FRIENDS I WOULD SIT DOWN BY THEM AND TALK TO THEM AND TREAT THEM NORMAL I WORK IN NURSING HOME AND I HAVE MET SOME WONDERFUL HIV POSITIVE PEOPLE.
Its has been 17yrs. My doctors are nice even the nice who take my blood for analysis dont wear gloves and i keep remind her. My doctors rises my self esteem always he says my healthy is better than 4 many. I never took any medication as he says my cds are good. I never had any symptoms but i takes much care of my diet plus excercises.
I have been with my HIV+ partner for 20+ yrs . He disclosed his status the first time I tried to tear off his clothes on the floor of my SF apt. I had always used the ‘assume + until told otherwise method because I came out in 84’ and began to lose beautiful people too young and precious. After going thru losing the most precious man (my volunteer match with Stanislaus Community AIDS Project) mg heart opened in a way I never thought possible . I fought harder to save those I thought I could help
Lately I've experienced a form of stigma that makes me sad and angry. As a man who lived thru the 80's and 90's, who marched in the streets and fought our governments silence, one who, like too many others, cried as their entire social circle died one by one, I was not surprised when I was told "You test positive for HIV exposure" and then AIDS. Now they refer to AIDS in terms of stages of HIV! Do u say that a cancer survivor is a survivor of mutant cell growth? Of course not!
So happy I was able to be a part of this,Thank you..
David V
Billt, that is EXACTLY what I'm afraid of. I'm well overdue for a visit to the dentist, but I can't bring myself to go for fear of something like that happening. I've asked my ID doctor, but to no avail. I give up....
January 14, 2019