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I told my 6 yr grandson that I have "bad blood", and the meds are to get me better. I know he knows that I am not straight[ hetrosexual ], and 1nce every while he will call me "Aunty Dennis", a nick name I am called. Just be honest, and up front with friends, and family. It took ten yrs to come to terms with my illness, and then I told my family. Ten yrs of partying took a toll on me.
My family now is very guarded over me, and sometime it makes me nuts. I now carry a cell phone with all my important #s in it. Love is Love. Caring, and Sharing. I also have ostioperious[thin bones]I have not had many illnesses, other than a cold.
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory-Canada has grown up, and we have most of the illnesses that our larger cities now have.
I have volunteered for twenty yrs here in the yukon, and am well known as an advocate/volunteer. I shave sat on various HIV/AIDS HEP C boards across Canada. I have gone to many conferences across Canada via scholarships. I love to travel.
I*ve outlived two lovers, and am still on a 3rd boyfriend hunt. Being single suxx, but, Scorpio is a survivor. I live on.
I hope this was of help. You need more Q & As, I am on Facebook, add me if u wish. Just a short note to say, " Hello '.
Have a safe one. Thx 4 letting me gab on.
Goodai.

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I told my grandbabies mawmaw sick which they saw on the own kids are smart they know when something is wrong my kids were old enough to understand and with Google they already knew she googled my symptoms and told her sister they csme to hospital everyday to see me and my daughter brought my grandbabies they didn't like the wires and ivs they were scared of me but we thought i was dying now when i get sick i go to bathroom my grandbabies are like mawmaw you sick gammaw you ok my grandson left me a voicemail on my phone mawmaw please get better i love you so they are part of my reason for fighting and taking my meds everyday and they understand when mawmaw needs to rest they like mawmaw go lay down and we watch tv by the way my grandbabies are 3 2 1 8 6 and 2 on the 27th i have 10 grandbabies oh and another grandson on the way 2 are in heaven my daughter miscarried her twins first pregnancy and her husband has two by his ex wife thats the older ones

my ex wife told my three 5-7-9 that i caught a deadly disease from fooling around but still they wanted to stay with me instead of her because they seen how she treated me all of their lives,being honest to your kids all through their lives with lots of love and they will listen to you and will try to help you in anyway they can, but leaving them will hurt them worse, i was only supost to live 6 months so i left them,now they all three are in their 40s and are so selfish, butl'm still alive and well and have more energy than they do,they all got the dragass, dont know how this story got to this point but i guess iwas n a roll or bad drugs

Telling my son was a very hard thing for me, I was very concerned about how it would effect him. I prepared him by doing a Q&A with him about HIV/AIDS to see just how much he knew & more important how much he didn't know. I educated him as much as I could clearing up facts from fiction, he thought I was doing it to protect he from getting it & I was but after our 4th conversation, I let him know about me. It was a shock too him & even made him shed tears, which was hard on me considering he was 24 yrs old. He turn back into a little boy right in front of my eyes. Crying about how much he didn't want me to die. It was HARD, I won't lie but we talked it through & I let him asks all the questions he needed to and I answered as best I could. Then I gave him time. It took about a week before we started acting like our normal selves again. Now he's OK with it, but he still gets worried if I get a cold or something, but I'm glad I told him & so is he, he told me that himself.
Kevin