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Published Sat, May 05 2018 6:57 AM by My journey with AIDS…and more!

Pill relief

I’m awaiting delivery of my next two weeks’ worth of medications with a major change in the blister packs. Gone will be Norvir, Prezista, Truvada and Nevirapine, all taken twice a day, and they’re being replaced with ONE pill, Genvoya...

Published Wed, Dec 13 2017 9:22 AM by My journey with AIDS…and more!

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, health-care, medical update

World AIDS Day 2017

I can’t find too much going on to commemorate World AIDS Day in Toronto this year but it just so happens to be the day my Beyond Surviving group meets, so I guess that’s something. With ACT’s shift away from surviving AIDS to living...

Published Thu, Nov 30 2017 7:19 AM by My journey with AIDS…and more!

Filed under: biography/autobiography

National Coming Out Day 2017

It’s October 11. In the United States, at least, it’s National Coming Out Day. I know of no such celebration in Canada but we’ve been ahead of the pack in most ways having to do with lgbtq-2 liberation. For me, Coming Out Day was sometime...

Published Wed, Oct 11 2017 1:02 PM by My journey with AIDS…and more!

Filed under: family, activism, sexual orientation, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, biography/autobiography

Before…After

World AIDS Day 2014 has come and gone and something had me rattled

Here’s my Facebook feed today after I heard Shaun Proulx on CBC Radio’s Metro Morning today referring to his blog on HIV Divorce. I have AIDS, and have had for many years. I can’t seem to walk that back, to HIV only, so I think of myself...

Published Mon, Dec 01 2014 7:37 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, activism, AIDS and HIV, World AIDS Day 2014, HIV Divorce

The true meaning of life…

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” –Nelson Henderson Read More...

Published Sat, Oct 25 2014 5:05 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: Uncategorized

Lunch

I planned dessert first today after seeing Wanda’s Pie in the Sky picture on Facebook this morning. I walked over to Kensington Market on a near-empty stomach and plopped myself down on the patio at Caplansky’s Delicatessen on College Street...

Published Fri, Sep 26 2014 12:33 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, Toronto, dining

The certainty of uncertainty

In my ongoing quest to get to the bottom of my annoyingly reduced sleep, I received the results of a recent MRI of my brain when I visited my family doctor yesterday and the report was clearly not written for me to comprehend. Even my doctor was at a...

Published Fri, Sep 05 2014 8:10 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, health-care, medical update, brain trauma

I’m Thinking, “This is Going to Hurt!”: On ‘How Not to Deal with Grief’

From my friend Betty Ann on her Facebook page: “This article deeply moved me…as I suspect it will for any of you who have been impacted by the kind of grief associated with multiple loss, deaths due to overdose and or HIV/AIDS. Rather than...

Published Mon, Aug 18 2014 8:31 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: grief, activism, AIDS and HIV, health-care, social justice, Planet Earth has AIDS, mental health, stigma, sexual orientation, Toronto, homosexuality, blog therapy, suicide, friendship

Sleep, no longer taken for granted, will soon be improving – hopefully

Early this month I had electrodes taped to my head, neck, chest and legs, then I was wished a good night for a sleep study to see why suddenly, to me at least, I couldn’t get a decent night of shut-eye. The results, which I received on Monday, showed...

Published Fri, Aug 15 2014 12:31 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, health-care, medical update, sleep study, neurologist, sleep disorder, central apnea

On “The God Article” with Mark Sandlin: I Want My Religion Back – You Can Keep the Ugly Baggage

This post is a work in progress. Please join in with your comments! Please read this article first: I Want My Religion Back – You Can Keep the Ugly Baggage. When my friend and, to the point, Facebook friend, Lori Knight-Whitehouse posted...

Published Mon, Jul 28 2014 7:22 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: activism, church, fundamentalism, social conservatives, Christianism, biography/autobiography

Why I’m Marching with ACT with Pride!

My first encounter with ACT (AIDS Committee of Toronto) was in its early days operating over what at the time was a KFC take-out restaurant. Compassion and information deep-fried! I was still living in St. Catharines, Ontario in those days, those early...

Published Sat, Jun 28 2014 5:34 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: Uncategorized, HIV/AIDS, AIDS support, ACT

Letter to The Star Re: When free speech becomes hate crime (Letters, June 23)

From among the throngs walking past, largely ignoring him, a street preacher standing with a mic and an amplifier in front of Old City Hall called me out leaving the opening ceremonies of World Pride taking place at Nathan Phillips Square last Friday...

Published Thu, Jun 26 2014 7:50 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: Uncategorized, homosexuality, HIV/AIDS, World Pride Toronto 2014, Christianity

A new low

“How long have you been wasting?” the chiropodist asked me a couple of weeks ago as she updated a history on me. The starkness of the verb, however accurate, stayed with me. I’ve always been thin, I said, but my weight has been falling...

Published Fri, Jun 13 2014 2:04 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, medical update, unwanted weight loss

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