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How was being diagnosed with HIV changed your life? Either good or bad. Up or down? Did a diagnosis made life worth living and you no longer take it for granted?
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Members reflected on how an HIV diagnosis transformed their lives, with many describing it as a wake-up call that prompted them to settle... Read more
I keep my life simple I don’t dawn on my HIV
I just live like as it’s given, when it comes to my HIV I keep it to myself I am not dating so I don’t have to expose but if I was dating I would expose, so for now healing my ankle surgery getting stronger to hopefully go back to work, little by little,
God is Good to Me I
am Blessed I hold on to my Faith and Believe
I will get through this 🙏
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@A myHIVteam Member It was my decision to carry-on the same trajectory already established in my life, prior to the news. I really didn't have a Plan B - so it was logical to continue with Plan A - until health factors might render Plan A no longer feasible. Coincidentally however, I was offered a job out-of-town for which I'd applied 6 months earlier, pre-diagnosis. I took the job, moved to a new city - thinking it would be a good experience - but also thinking if I fell ill, I could deal with it privately - out of view from friends and family. I intended to spare everyone the visuals I believed were inevitable. So, the coincidental job offer and its timing occurring just after diagnosis came with some added privacy and anonymity in a city where I didn't know anyone prior to arriving. It was a convenient aspect of the relocation - rather than a driving factor in accepting the offer. But ultimately moot since gloom and doom never came knocking. Plus, the new place was easy for making friends - very quickly. And so I flourished there professionally and personally - in previously unimaginable ways - while also learning I'd likely live a very long, healthy and happy life - a pleasant discovery - fortunately proven true over time. I would like to think things are similar to what might have been true absent the diagnosis - because the journey has truly been amazing - fun - epic actually - and come with the blessing of great health throughout. I've enjoyed meeting a lot of very smart people who've provided my health care over the years - in cities throughout the country - thanks to other moves that came later. And now I travel the world for pleasure - working remotely - something more feasible today than not so long ago. I'm really not sure what decisions I might make differently if I had it all to do over again. Because in many ways things turned out much better than I could have intentionally achieved by design ... BUT insofar as the diagnosis being an influential factor - I don't know - seems likely it would have influenced some decisions subconsciously BUT not from a physical-health context - so, perhaps instead from an emotional-health standpoint - is my best guess. It's a great question you pose - and I wish I could give you more emphatic answers - but, thank you for letting me think about it and also indulge in this walk down memory lane 😅 Hugz, Brad
It have drastically changed my life, every weekend I’d look for love and all the wrong places. I was one wild and crazy guy. I went through so many Twinks that my friends said they had to kick the chicken feathers out of the floor in order to walk-through my house. So basically it caused me to settle down grow up start taking care of myself and look for love in the right places. It was definitely a rude awakening.
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