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@A myHIVteam Member & @A myHIVteam Member.
It isn't so much what happens to us that matters. It's how we react that determines our future.

I have learned to love life..my life..my beliefs and my goals..last week I gained my Peer Recovery Coach certification..chose that over RN degree...live is more meaningful since my dx in March 2001..I'm a survivor and nothing cab deter me

I personally took the money the money I received in law suit from getting hypitits and HIV. Did Europe. Even fell in love. Got divorced. Have lived this life. Best way I can

I was diagnosed with HIV 24 years ago. I had a terrible experience, the worker told me not to see a doctor, it wouldn't do much for me anyhow. WHEW that was quite a ride. Anyhow, when I crawled out of my boo hoo hole and realized that I had life yet to live, I started, timidly at first, setting goals. First I decided I wanted to graduate from college. I had started, but I had never finished. So, I went to school and studied literature. The next thing I knew, I graduated. From there, I got a MA in British Literature, and considered a PhD, but my work sent me for an MBA. I would NEVER have done that, I didn't have any discipline, and I thought I had FOREVER before. After that, I had a few health scares. I wound up having Stevens Johnson Syndrome and spent a month in the intensive care burn unit (dang meds). Either way, after that I went to law school, got my Juris Doctor, and then my LLM and opened a law firm. Work life balance became important, so I went into business for myself. I would not have done any of these things had I not been diagnosed with HIV. Between getting a reality of check that life is short, I lost most of my family to bigotry. At the end of the day, it pushed me to live an actual life where before I was stuck in my boo hoo hole. Things are always changing. I have cardiac problems now, and I'm in denial, but the past 24 years have been far more productive since my wake up call back in 2000.