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GaryNPA
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On failed rubbers, tree attacks, & sex in Africa
      #10832 - 10/16/00 12:35 PM

Ok, enough with the insanity folks. I do very much understand the stress, anxiety, guilt, and fear that most all of us have at some point had as we made our way through the testing window for this dreaded illness. This board becomes a source of comfort, family in some cases, and a place for hope to get everyone through. The problem is, when the good news comes that people are negative, they have a hard time separating themselves from it, and accepting that they need to seek alternative answers to what they had convinced themselves was their problem.

More and more posts are coming out that are looking for targeted "exceptions" to what we all have to accept as the facts with this disease. People dont get hiv from spitting; you dont get hiv from someone's eye gunk that they flung across the room at you. YOu dont get hiv from a palm tree that poked you that just before had a confirmed hiv positive person leaning up against it and bleeding on it. You CAN get hiv from a sex worker, IF they are definitely positive, and IF you had the ideal conditions present for transmission of a very fickle virus. But when you test negative, you still must be prepared to accept it. I think posting on this site has become a hobby for a few folks that is like a gambling addiction. They dont have any real reason to be here, but they cant leave, so they have to create a new worry to justify their continued postings. I know at least in one case I am singling someone out, and I apologize. But 4 months ago, it was sex with a sex worker and they knew they put a condom on wrong. Then, the sex worker stuck them with something. Then, a tree attacked them. Now, the sex worker lived in a grass covered kibbutz in West Africa and hiv-2 is now certain. Seriously, enough is enough. This dreaded disease needs more people to volunteer to help champion a cure, not to keep posting here. Re-divert the energy into a positive vein! If you cannot, seek true professional help.

Thanks for listening to an otherwise caring guy's venting of some frustration, and my apologies to anyone offended.



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Re: On failed rubbers, tree attacks, & sex in Africa new
      #10844 - 10/16/00 01:51 PM

As for sjp1 or whatever his name is, we must wish him well and end to his misguided bitterness. For someone so awash in the "true" facts of this nightmare, his grammar and spelling certainly leave much to be desired. Take appropriate note of that my fellow board members, for it (it being communication skills) truely is a rather simple and adept tool with which to measure one's "credentials" when speaking on a subject such as this. None the less, he has aired his view. The only consideration now is how you respond. Do you allow this smattering of a half witted, grotesquely extrapolated, peicemeal dissertation to throw you into a "fear coma"? Or, do you simply realize while reading it that it never really "says" anything. Thats right! It doesn't. Didn't realize that? Go back and read it again my friends. I am fully confident that you will not be able to glean even one, count 'em, one, complete statement that actually "states" anything at all. If it wasn't for the spelling, you would think he must have a political science degree. I have been reading this board for sometime but have not posted because all my questions have been answered already, with, of course, the exception of the most important one. Now that I think about it, I'm beginning to feel like that strange figure "lurking" in the shadows. Also, to be quite honest, posting to this board until now has been a terrifying prospect; as if by posting, I was utterly cast into the mix of this nightmare. But, here I am today, posting like a pro! Its almost as if I know many of you personally. Gary, PVS, MC. Were it not for this thorn ridden path we're on right now, I'd venture to say we would all have one hell of a night on the town. Ironically, this posting thing is quite liberating. Now, dredging back to reality, I am here for the same reason most of you are:concern. I say most because there are quite a few silly gooses on here that truely do have some emotional/reality based thinking problems. I wish them the best. I just wish they would put conscious effort into getting help for the real problems. Anyway, I'm doing better these last few weeks, in part because of some of the aforementioned people on this board. There was a time a few weeks ago when I was completely and utterly hollowed and so panick stricken that I was about to commit suicide. I still feel things are going to turn out very poorly for me and I start to panick every now and then, but I think its perfectly natural and somewhat controllable now. Well, I have to get back to work now. I would love to post more unless I've already worn out my welcome. If thats the case, just let me know and I will simply continue lurking. Take care.



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