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Here's a stinkin good reason to be faithful to your spouse...beyond the vows, love, etc.
Just hung up the phone with my wife. She was talking to her aunt in Florida today. Her aunt was telling her the story of a lady down the street in her neighborhood. -------------------------------------------------- In the last 5 or 6 months this woman, who is 29 and healthy, had started feeling tired all the time. She also had chronic cold symptoms that she just couldn't kick.
One night in the first week of Oct she was watching TV on floor when the kids went to bed. When the kids got up in the morning she was still on the floor, sleeping. They woke her and she got them off to school. Dad was on a 3 day business trip. After the kids were gone she layed back down. When the kids got home from school she was still sleeping. They tried to wake her, but couldn't. So they ran to the neighbors', who called 911.
After some testing the Doctors came to find that she has full blown AIDS. She was shocked because she had only been with one man her entire life, her husband, and she never had any major operations or blood transfusions. Upon hearing this news her husband admitted the had had an affair with a co-worker a while back, but had broken it off over the guilt he felt. He planned to just pretend it never happened and to never do it again.
He has HIV, but it's hasn't developed into AIDS. The doctors are giving his wife 1-3 years to live. Their kids are 7 and 9.
It turns out the co-worker had HIV and didn't know it. --------------------------------------------------
Not a conversation I would want to have. True story from a neighborhood just like all of ours.
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Good point Ramius. When I have been deployed in the past I have taken flak for my "will this make my girlfriend cry" test I apply to things before I do them. The adage what happens on det stays on det definitely applies. I had one instance of a pilot I was flying with as an aircrewman come down with viral menengitis upon returnig from Japan. I got this letter from the hospital on Whidbey Island to get checked. I didn't have it, but I also didn't misbehave. I ofen wondered what it was like for him at home trying to explain that one away. It's nice being able to return home and look my girlfriend of 8 years in the eye and know I was honest and faithful to her.
-------------------- If it wasn't for bad luck I'd have no luck at all.
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Does AIDS actually kill anyone anymore? Seriously, I know Magic Johnsons had aids for almost 15 years now (maybe longer because you have it before you tell the media and before you even knew you had it).
Don't mean to sound ignorant or Nieve but, I never hear of anyone dieing from aids and It's supposidly running "rampid" and becoming an epidemic in black communities (well that's what the media tells me, LOL).
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quote:Originally posted by MasterQuinn: I guess you don't die from aids you die from infections or viruses after you get aids... So.
If you move into a bubble then you'd be fine.
But I can't believe you can still get aids from a blood transfusion after all the testing they can do.
The way I understand it is that HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. So, a person can contract HIV, and possibly live with it their entire life and never develop AIDS. Once a person does develop AIDS, it's only a matter of time.
Maybe Magic Johnson has HIV that hasn't become AIDS? I'm not sure.
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At all costs use a rubber, and if you don't have access to one in the moment of passion you could use one of the following (I do not guarantee that you will not transmit disease but these sound like they might work...)
- Ziplock Bag - Walmart bag - Saran wrap - Piece of tarp
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