It's heartbreaking to see not so many people are still here at Shoutpost. Has the community been dying or am I just not seeing the same faces? So I last posted when I was in Texas which was almost a year ago. I left Texas on October 1st and went to Portland, Oregon where I stayed until March 7th. I loved it there and have all intentions of moving back in October. What made me leave, you ask? Well that, my friends, is where we get to the story of how my life changed forever. Irrevocably. I was playing music with my best friend Terri for several months out in Portland when I found out on March 3th that I am HIV positive. So, I decided to head home for a few months and stay with my folks while adjusting to a different way of life. I've gone to the doctor several times and I'm borderline needing meds and I'm doing many things to raise my cd4 count up to the point of not needing them. They start meds at 250 and I'm at 265. I'm doing pretty well mentally. I go through period of being depressed. Not because I have HIV but I have certain thoughts about things I would like to have done that I do feel have been changed due to having HIV. Currently, I'm working part time and selling some things on ebay to raise the money to get myself back out to Oregon. They have a much better HIV program for uninsured people there. I'll post more tomorrow. But I will post today some previous postings from another journal I've kept. I've been dissecting the bible in a very tongue-in-cheek fashion and I'll share some of my musings with you folks here at SP! 'til next time, Be safe. xoxo |