Coping With HIV: Personal Viewpoints

Each New Day! A Blog Entry by Rae Lewis-Thornton (March 4, 2013)
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Just Enough Goodness to Keep Me Going: A Blog Entry by Rae Lewis-Thornton (February 25, 2013)
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HIV Is Not a Gift. HIV Is an Opportunity. A Blog Entry by Reggie Smith (February 24, 2013)
"Using drugs, exchanging bodily fluids, stress, poor nutrition, being unforgiving and not giving and receiving love are all contributing to the proliferation of the disease. They are also circumstances and behaviors that would seem to be beyond the medical or scientific community's ability to change."
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Getting to Better! A Blog Entry by Rae Lewis-Thornton (February 18, 2013)
"What I know for sure, if I do nothing, if I stop working on 'better' today, then 'better' will never come tomorrow. So I keep God at God's Word and work toward better with the belief that the better I cannot see will come when I least expect it."
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Discovering Me: A Blog Entry by Tree Alexander (February 1, 2013)
"I'm a nonconformist to the core. A cisgender pansexual polyamorous individual. ... It all comes down to becoming comfortable in my own skin, with my own beliefs, without feeling like I have to appeal to others' ideas of identity and relationships."
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Does HIV Still Bother Me, After 22 Years? A Blog Entry by River Huston (February 1, 2013)
"AIDS, yep, I said it, is my forever roommate, bad houseguest, crappy relationship, but I don't have to think about every minute of every day."
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Josh Kruger Shares His Story: A Blog Entry by Robert Breining (January 13, 2013)
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Happy Anniversary, HIV. I Hate You. A Blog Entry by Philip D. (January 10, 2013)
"If you are HIV positive, it is unlikely you can forget the moment you were first told that the deadly virus lives and replicates inside of you. I heard the news five years ago today. It changed the way I felt about myself and in some ways, how I viewed the world."
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A Year of Hard Lessons -- And a Merry New Year: A Blog Entry by Tree Alexander (January 10, 2013)
"I have always said 'people don't change, their priorities do' and when I took a good look at myself in the mirror I realized that my priorities were all off track. I had put so many things before me that I was tripping all over myself."
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Stayin' Alive: A Blog Entry by Rev. Andrena Ingram (January 4, 2013)
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The Private War That Killed Spencer Cox (January 2, 2013)
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Fighting Holiday Blues and Family Challenges: A Blog Entry by Alive2 (December 24, 2012)
"I felt because of the arguing, I didn't want to be here, and when I was gone there was nowhere I wanted to be more than back home. And it being Christmas, every time I heard 'I'll Be Home for Christmas' on the radio it tore me up."
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Life's Ups and Downs: A Blog Entry by Maria T. Mejia (December 7, 2012)
"Remember that the beautiful butterfly was once a cocoon. There is hope as long as there is life."
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Day 547: Remembering That I Am HIV Infected -- A Video Blog Entry by Aaron Laxton (December 4, 2012)
"Every now and then something will remind me that I am infected with a virus that without drug intervention and treatment would lead to extreme sickness and ultimately death."
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Living in the Afterlife With HIV: A Blog Entry by Jeffery Allen (November 30, 2012)
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A Strategy for the Holiday Season: A Video Blog by Aaron Laxton (November 26, 2012)
"In this video I talk about some things that you can do to safeguard against depression as the holidays approach."
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Monday Reflection: Living in the Right Now -- A Blog Entry by Rae Lewis-Thornton (October 29, 2012)
"Sometimes I feel like I'm between a rock and a hard place. ... On one level, I don't want to make people think you can't live with this disease. ... My honesty could have a negative effect on what they need to do to survive. Nor do I want people to think living with HIV is a one-pill wonder."
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Monday Reflection: Balancing Hurt, Accepting the Seasons -- A Blog Entry by Rae Lewis-Thornton (October 15, 2012)
"When someone alters your life without your permission ... you are faced with very hard decisions of how do you balance the thing that has happened to you with the person who has done it."
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This Positive Life Video: An Interview With Michael Storm (October 14, 2012)
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Surrendering to Self-Care! A Blog Entry by Rae Lewis-Thornton (September 20, 2012)
"This round of IV medication, I'm trying to balance work and self-care; and at the same time, not feel guilty about the fact that I'm taking time away to renew."
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It's Time to RISE4WAR! A Blog Entry by Reggie Smith (September 10, 2012)
"The acronym WAR (Wellness, Awareness, Recovery) speaks to both the major issues that experience has taught us that we need to address in order to overcome HIV, and the fact that WE ARE AT WAR with HIV!!!"
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