World AIDS Day
Dec. 1st, 2009 10:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
linden_jayI have been lucky.
To date, this disease has yet to touch my life, or the life of anyone I know personally. And I think we get complacent, and forget that it isn't just something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. Somewhere that isn't here, and isn't "us". Whatever "us" means.
But.
When my aunt and uncle's marriage was ending, he confessed to her that not only had he had a series of girlfriends/mistresses/whatever the term, but he'd been sleeping with random hookups on pretty much every business trip that he'd taken, which was a lot. That when he couldn't find someone who was willing to have sex with him for free, that he'd paid for it. And that he hadn't always practiced safe sex.
And my entire family, from her children, to my then eighty year old Nana, spent a year holding our breath as she went in for test after retest, until we were finally able to breathe freely again. Negative. She was lucky. Others haven't been.
Please. Support World AIDS Day.
To date, this disease has yet to touch my life, or the life of anyone I know personally. And I think we get complacent, and forget that it isn't just something that happens to someone else, somewhere else. Somewhere that isn't here, and isn't "us". Whatever "us" means.
But.
When my aunt and uncle's marriage was ending, he confessed to her that not only had he had a series of girlfriends/mistresses/whatever the term, but he'd been sleeping with random hookups on pretty much every business trip that he'd taken, which was a lot. That when he couldn't find someone who was willing to have sex with him for free, that he'd paid for it. And that he hadn't always practiced safe sex.
And my entire family, from her children, to my then eighty year old Nana, spent a year holding our breath as she went in for test after retest, until we were finally able to breathe freely again. Negative. She was lucky. Others haven't been.
Please. Support World AIDS Day.
