(sorry but my vv key is not vvorking - lol) Dear doc: Thanks a lot for your ansvver. It is nice to knovv that you love portugal - i live in lisbon - and knovvs about Fado!!! And yes, i hope to have a life span near to normal (hope it means 'MORE or less' the normal). I fell great phisical and emotional and i believe your vvork had help me coping vvith my status (and some psycological therapy also). I am 38 yo, hiv+ for 12 years, vvorking vvith a great portuguese doctor, never been hill, happy, vvith fantastic friends, a nice vvork that alovv me to travel (i have been in Rio de Janeiro for nevvs year eve), buyng a nevv house and vvainting for someone nice to share my life (if it is happen). So i thanks to the universe and you, doctors and scientists, for being alive! Hope every body that is hiv positiv is at least as happy as me! Finnaly, a very happy 2006! (and if you vvant to visit lisbon, please let me knovv). From lisbon.

Oh, you're very welcome..

Thanks for your kind words-- stay in touch. BY