I had to actually talk to my friend Becky before I wrote my response because I wanted to make sure she would be there for me if I told her I was HIV positive. She laughed at me, and reassured me that she would never let me go through anything alone. It is so important to have someone you can run to when times get tough, and I have been lucky enough to find an entire group of girls at UCF. If something drastic happened to me I know I would not have to do it alone. I think it would be hard for me to tell my mom because she would immediately think that I was having sex with random guys. I would not be able to tell my mom until months after I found out.
M&M Assignment I found it extremely difficult to remember to take the pills faithfully. I even set my alarm on my cell phone and still forgot several times. I think I would be doing more harm to myself if I started taking medications because I would never take them at the correct time. I learned a lot from this assignment, and I hope if I was really in the position that I could focus on taking the pills correctly.Did You Know?!?! A London nurse died 7 years after she accidentally pricked herself with an HIV infected needle. Tests showed that she had an African strain of HIV resulting from the HIV positive patient. Juliet Young died of pneumonia at the age of 42. This article had a posting section for readers to write their input, and I saw that one person wrote that they accidentally prick themselves all the time!! If it is constantly happening, then I would only assume that I was doing something wrong. Who wants to keep getting pricked by used needles and not find a different way of doing it? I just found that post crazy and wanted your opinion.. :)
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I only forgot to take one of my pills during the week, but I feel like if both of us were really on that medication, we wouldn't forget as easily. I think that it is up to the person and if we forget, it might be because we "wanted" to. Do you remember Silverlake Life? Tom admitted that he didn't really forget his medicine all the time, just that he was tired of all the pills and it seemed like he was just tired of living.
ReplyDeleteI hope that it was just that person who keeps pricking themselves and not a lot of people. From what I have heard, pricking doesn't happen that often and from Teach's slides, workers are not infected with HIV that often either.
I'm glad that you have a supportive group of friends surrounding you. Girl power!!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised to hear about the needle sticks being a common thing...where was this person from? Hopefully not the United States. It doesn't matter...safe practices really need to be adhered to, no matter what country.
And I agree with Jessica. I think if it was our lives on the line, we would be taking those pills religiously. At least I hope so!!
The whole intent of the simulation is that you never get in this position. If you can't be compliant then you shouldn't start drugs until you feel you can be. My daughter still forgets to take her pills and she has been doing this for 12 years.
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