Monday 17 November 2008

HIV is very boring

Some people have asked me why I do not keep up this blog much theses days
Well the reality is that living with HIV is just so very boring!!

I don't mean I want to live my life in a state of anxiety and trauma whereby HIV is uppermost on my mind and I am constantly distressed about it

No .............what I mean is that now we have got used to the fact we are living with HIV, there is often nothing to write about as our HIV is just a fact of our life.

But it also carries for me has its own unique sense of boredom because in the past I have always been a believer that life always changes and that you never know what is going to happen and what your future will bring. And I have always been happy and excited to face whatever life has in store for me.

But the one thing in my life that will never change now and will always be constant, is living with HIV - and the prospect of that bores me stiff.

I do not know if anyone will understand what I mean by this or why it is this way for me, but it just is.

I had an idea that this is how I would feel once I got used to he fact of living with HIV, so this is one reason I have tried to get involved with the HIV issue as an activist and have joined groups, a charity and started a woman's group.

But it is hard to be an activist on your own, never meeting anyone else who feels the same face to face - and so rairly meeting anyone else with the remotest interest in HIV from any point of view!!


I had hoped that I could use my new status and knowledge about HIV to raise awareness and inform and threw myself into distributing the PozFem stuff and contacting those I new from my youth work days and offered my services everywhere I could think of as a public speaker on HIV.

But no one is remotely interested!!!

That is something I have learned - that unless you have HIV most have little or any interest in it, and those of us who do have it get bored with it being a constant in our lives.

And very few are at all interested in finding out .

I guess like I felt before HIV ...

Everyone thinks that HIV will NEVER affect them personally, it will never be directly a part of their lives. Some are sorry that others suffer it but it is of no real interest to them!

I have tried to get some enthusiasm to do something for World AIDs Day or to join in with someone who is doing something down here for Worlds AIDs Day

But have found no enthusiasm to do anything and the only thing that I know that has been organised in this part of Cornwall is a party run by

Healthy Gay Cornwall - a health promotion initiative

Saturday, November 29, 2008
Time:
8:00pm - 11:55pm
Location:
Bar Q-Dos, Truro
City/Town:
Truro

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=96408265330

This is great - that someone is doing something. And I am going to go if I can - But I am not gay or even male but I will go to support.

their statement on the facebook page says: HIV still disproportionately affects gay and bisexual men in the UK. It is estimated that across the UK, around 1 in 20 of gay/bisexual men are now HIV positive - a third of those don't even know they are infected.

And I am not even male !! I am a lo older that most will be and theses days i can' cope with crowds or crowded nightclubs - So how am I going to feel if I go? Will I stick out like a sore thumb? Probably!

I am not sure anyway I agree with the statement. It is probably true that there are more gay and bisexual men in the UK that are HIV positive than other groups ( but not totally sure about this now) and that like the rest of the population a third do not know they are infected - but I thought this applied to the whole population of the UK and not just gay and bi men!!- well know it does -

Also I thought that HIV new diagnosis/infection rates had stabilized or even dropped among gay men and he fastest rising group of new infections of HIV are women in the UK??

I am sure that this is right?
( if anyone knows what the statistics are let me know ?)

Anyway what i really want is a job in HIV in some way - but as far as I can see their is no chance down here in Cornwall unless I moved it would be impossible!

If anyone knows of any jobs in HIV or related work in Cornwall let me know!! I need something to keep me interested and motivated.

2 comments:

HIV and Us said...

Oh so that's right is it?

SO I give up the hugely researched, tried and tested Antiretroviral meds that work so well to keep me well and take this rubbish thing called AMBUSH

Are you mad or are you evil?

Do you have HIV?? Or is your sole purpose of posting such rubbish on my blog to try to make money out of those of us who are unfortunate top suffer from HIV???
And especially those who are unfortunate enough not to live in a country that provides them with effective medication or live in a country that they have to pay for it and can not afford it ?

If so you are the worst of the worst

You are a vulture!!!!!

AMBUSH a cure!!! Well if it was you would be worth millions and would not have to post rubbish like this on my blog

Basically FUCK OFF!!!!

Anonymous said...

Does the lord find an appropraite and reasonable amount of bad language acceptable Apostle? If not he may find what I have to say to you quite upsetting.

Who the hell do you think you are googling HIV/Aids to pick out innocent victims to spout your bullshit at? If there is a god out there I hope he answers my prayer that you will come back and read this. I dread to think of the people you may have contacted in this way, and those at such a vulnerable stage in their lives that may have actually taken your shit and contacted you.

I suggest to you sir that you come back when your fucked up ideas have been licensed for use on HIV patients in the UK by our governing bodies. And may the lord you so clearly trust in damn you if you have caused any innocent people to believe your fucked up logic and put trust in you.

Your Sincerely

Helen aka WG