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We got a check from a client for work on another project today and the boss marched right down to the bank to deposit it, then cut checks for each of us. We all had a discussion over how much money we each needed, because there wasn't enough to catch all of us up.
My share was $800, of which $265 will be going to my health insurance payment on Monday, and $500 will go to my rent payment, leaving me with $35 more than when I woke up this morning. :-)
My contact at my client's office wasn't in today, so that means that he wasn't finding out what I needed to know to send faxes from my application; I doubt we'll be able to give them an invoice on Monday. More than that, we're eager to begin working on the next iteration of the system, and we think that the reaction from the group we presented to indicates that they have a lot of things they'd like to see.
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angelsboi's journal. He tested positive for HIV about two months before I did, almost exactly a year ago. cjliotta posted an entry about his death last week.
Angelsboi was 23 when he got his HIV test results. His initial bloodwork indicated that he had a viral load of over 750,000 (that's copies of HIV in a milliliter of blood) and just 10 T-cells (healthy bodies have between 800-1400 or so).
My first blood tests in August 2003 indicated 89 T-cells and a viral load of almost 63,000. Since then, my medication has brought my T-cells close to 200 and my viral load to 575 (these results are from my last test, which was in April).
It's sobering to read Angelsboi's journal, to read about his fears for his health and his relationship, to read his poetry. If I hadn't found out about my HIV when I did, I probably would have suffered the same within months. I knew that I had cut it close, but reading about his sickness really drives the point home.
If you haven't been tested for HIV recently, go get it done. Get it done regularly.
My share was $800, of which $265 will be going to my health insurance payment on Monday, and $500 will go to my rent payment, leaving me with $35 more than when I woke up this morning. :-)
My contact at my client's office wasn't in today, so that means that he wasn't finding out what I needed to know to send faxes from my application; I doubt we'll be able to give them an invoice on Monday. More than that, we're eager to begin working on the next iteration of the system, and we think that the reaction from the group we presented to indicates that they have a lot of things they'd like to see.
I've been reading through
angelsboi's journal. He tested positive for HIV about two months before I did, almost exactly a year ago. cjliotta posted an entry about his death last week.Angelsboi was 23 when he got his HIV test results. His initial bloodwork indicated that he had a viral load of over 750,000 (that's copies of HIV in a milliliter of blood) and just 10 T-cells (healthy bodies have between 800-1400 or so).
My first blood tests in August 2003 indicated 89 T-cells and a viral load of almost 63,000. Since then, my medication has brought my T-cells close to 200 and my viral load to 575 (these results are from my last test, which was in April).
It's sobering to read Angelsboi's journal, to read about his fears for his health and his relationship, to read his poetry. If I hadn't found out about my HIV when I did, I probably would have suffered the same within months. I knew that I had cut it close, but reading about his sickness really drives the point home.
If you haven't been tested for HIV recently, go get it done. Get it done regularly.
