Statistically Speaking
Statistically, speaking, I should be dead. Now, I am not a numbers person, and I am not particularly good at math. However, I am acutely aware of how lucky I am to have survived three major life events that should have taken me out. I have survived an HIV positive diagnosis, a near fatal auto accident, and a abnormally high ACE score. HIV positive was not a death sentence for me or for most people who contracted the virus after 1996. I contracted the disease in 2008. Only a little over a decade of time made an enormous difference in my HIV story. Several friends of mine were not so lucky. In the early years, AZT seemingly did more harm than Good. With the advent of highly active anti-retroviral treatment, HAART, the HIV game was remarkably changed. It is vital that we make sure that those that need the medication can get it. What was once a nearly guaranteed death sentence is now a manageable disease with a life expectancy the same for those that have a negative HIV status. It is i...