Comments on: Living with HIV

Living with HIV

silusGROK — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 08:08:39 -0800

In My Place. Brent posted a link on his blog today to an "ongoing, unfinished series of journal entries [he's been writing] since testing positive for hiv last year". I'm taking the entries one at a time, as they're poignant... so I've not yet read through them all. It's a brave thing... brave and beautiful. God speed Brent, and I hope that your sharing will touch the hearts of those who suffer alone.

By: psychotic_venom

psychotic_venom — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:01:47 -0800

Pretty open and honest. And you can really feel what he's sharing. I didn't find them unbearable, like silus--but could understand why someone would. I especially think it's interesting that it's so easy to be criminialized and become defensive--which makes the life you have left so much less worth living.

By: alphanerd

alphanerd — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:08:48 -0800

That's one of the most moving things I've read in awhile. Stuff like this should be required reading for anyone taking a health/sex ed class.

By: moonbird

moonbird — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 09:13:56 -0800

This is incredible. A friend of mine is experiencing the same things with his poz status. I'd devastating, but the tenacity toward hope is very inspiring. Thanks.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:02:21 -0800

good luck to him...and i hope he finds a mix of the cocktail that works without making him live in the bathroom--they're all problematic (and toxic).

By: Marquis

Marquis — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:02:42 -0800

Brave and awful, sparse and beautifully written. My respect and thanks to Brent; i hope he feels better with every day.

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:09:57 -0800

Jesus, the Health Department part of it has got to be so alienating. It's like they're putting him through some secret-agent test where they go through your garbage and talk to everyone you've known since 2nd grade. I don't understand the reason for forcing doctors to reveal confidential information about their patients when it's so obviously going to be used against them.