Longtime Companion

This is my latest longtime companion, and my last! This is what an HIV cell looks like. This is actually the life cycle of HIV as it enters a healthy cell, replicates, and goes off in search of more damage. They do look kinda cute but we know bettter.

Moral of the story, play safe, get tested, be in a serious monogamous relationship unlike mine.

I guess the good thing I can say is the medications, or cocktails available to us nowadays are better. I hear horror stories about the early AIDS days where patients had to take a slew of pills and the side effects were many. Today there are meds that can be taken once a day, they are expensive but if you're lucky, you can get assistance with co-pays.

I am currently on a cocktail of one pill, Atripla. It is a combination of two meds in one pill and my t-cells have been slowly climbing. I am also taking a powerful anti-biotic that I hope to stop taking after I hit 200 t-cells. It's only a matter of time.