Re: My Personal Expieriece with Gayness

Green-Eyed Chris wrote:
In article <47359955$0$26414$88260bb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Drusilla <gammanormidsERASETHIS@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Green-Eyed Chris escribió:
In article <1194650375.073906.213740@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
expotterfan <expotterfan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snipping report of something similar to what I once witnessed in college but cannot declare to be representative>

Another thing that pisses me off is that they want to act like this
and then bitch about the government not doing enough to stop HIV -
when already taxpayers are getting soaked on spending on HIV research
that doubles what's being spent on heart disease and cancer - killers
that effect everyone in greater numbers.
I don't have any statistics on the American or global spreading of HIV, but I have my doubts that unprotected homosexual activities are still the major cause of infection.
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Chris
Probably you're right, because it has been years since I've heard a case . Actually, what I've heard the most _here_ is a) Hospital negligence on blood transfusions (and, even more sadly, in maternity wards) and b) from mother to child.

My ex, herself a nurse, received a routine injection while in the maternity ward with our second daughter. A few hours later, the physician on duty came to inform her that the nurse had not realized she had already used the injection on another patient until the needle was already in and had then left the room in shock. My ex and the other patient were both tested and found to be negative at the time. She signed a legal release for the hospital. Personally, I would have waited out the 6 months incubation period to make sure, but you know how women can be.

I once stuck myself with a needle I had just used on a patient whom I knew to be positive. I was using a device specifically (and poorly) designed for protection while recapping injection needles! I had, of course, already had the best HIV vaccine around at the time and my internist said I would probably have to stick myself about 460 times to actually become infected. That did not make the following 6 months any more pleasant (for someone already being one in a million).

You don't have to be gay to want funding for HIV research. Much of what falls under heart disease and cancer can just as well be called self inflicted. Without outside influence, both are actually very natural biological processes. I always say that _everybody_ has a little bit of cancer. <stepping off soapbox>
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Chris

Yes, telling someone they would probably have to be stuck 460 times to 'catch' is rather like telling your girlfriend that it will take 460 times having sex to get her pregnant. Might be true statistically, but we all know of too many cases where one time was enough!
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