This week I'm getting an HIV test. For real! Not because I'm unsure about my status, it's just a quick and easy way to make $20. Got a letter from Dr. Greg about the local ASO running a clinical trial for a new 10 second HIV test. So they want positoids to take it, to...
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Lab Results Are In
I got numbers out the wazoo recently, and I'll start with the ones I teased about a few days ago: lab results. No, I'm not Maurey Povich's kid or anything. Just my positoid blood work is in, and everything is the same as it was back in April. My t-cells are 503 (25%)...
Kin to the Chicken Man
On Thursday I went in for my quarterly doctor's appointment with Dr. Greg for the usual friendly banter and lab tests. But I did promise Gwenn before I left that I'd actually talk about how I've been feeling. Which, overall, has been good. I have noticed some issues...
A Boy, A Virus, A Doctor
I love my doctor. And a few weeks ago we had the opportunity to speak to a group of doctors on a sunny, Friday afternoon. Dr. Greg, a great guy whom I share many laughs with during my quarterly doctor's appointments, did a brief powerpoint presentation. Not quite as...
AIDS Walk New York 2007
The NY AIDS Walk is two months away, and Gwenn and I are once again participating with our teammates in Team Super Snack, a rough and tumble lot that managed to raise $20,000 last year. (Click the Video button below to see highlights.) To get things going, I want to...
John McCain for President (of the Gambia)
In the last week there have been a couple of troubling stories about my pet virus, HIV. The first of which is that the President of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, is claiming that he has found the cure for AIDS and is dispensing it to some of the civilians in the Western...
The Secret of Happiness at University of New Hampshire
So I've started working again. The night before leaving for Vegas, I was called to duty at the University of New Hampshire. To once again share the intimate details of my existence... after all the praise for My Pet Virus and holiday dinners, could I stand and deliver...
The Bed In Complete
Friday was World AIDS Day, and Gwenn (my wife partner) and I commemorated the event by having a Bed In in the Kenneth Cole window at Grand Central. The night before we spoke twice in New Jersey, and earlier in the week we went to North Carolina and Texas, answering...
Bed In For World AIDS Day in Grand Central (Dec 1- 8 AM-11 AM)
This Friday, in the Kenneth Cole window at Grand Central Station, Gwenn and I are staging a Bed In For World AIDS Day. We're doing this to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS, to show that people with HIV can and do have safe, loving and healthy relationships. AmfAR and...
The Calm Before the Storm
The good news of Thanksgiving has settled in and, like with any other potential tragedy averted, it's back to life as usual. Which, for me, entails a lot of travel during the taint between Thanksgiving and Christmas, where World AIDS Day falls. Before I totally leave...