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*Update July 2015: The new legacy tobacco document library has gone online. Here you can search over 14 million documents from the secret ...
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*click to enlarge Zac and Casper have always gotten on well, but with Cloe around pretty much all Zac's attention was taken up with ...
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Natasha, younger than we thought she was at only 13, has a new student. Little Cloe is such a sweet little thing Natasha has taken her un...
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A wide open look at the extremist christian hate preachers in the US, much of it about pastor Steven Anderson who recently said about Or...
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How times have changed from the hysterical anti-carbon tax fear of Abbott's.
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It was a night of drama last night, with Cloe finally going to sleep and passing away as I rocked her gently. She died at 2:45 AM this mo...
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This is what the Olympics have become. An Olympic official arresting a man because he's holding a gay flag. I posted this the other day ...
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An honest interview with Ricky Martin, who came out to the world after his kids were born in the interests of honesty. Although in his pr...
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Rachel Maddow goes through and shows how the anti-gay laws now in Russia came from the US, complete with people travelling over there to dru...
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Once again I would like to recognise that this is all because Turnbull has no spine and wouldn't allow a free parliamentary vote. Tha...
About me
After 30 years of very physical full time work in the printing industry our print dept was outsourced and we all lost our jobs. As I'd gotten HIV beforehand and was having trouble attending and doing work I discussed with my HIV doctor whether I should apply for the Australian Disability Support Pension. He agreed,and I became a DSP pensioner under the new Gillard rules of adherence that now sees 75% of DSP applicants rejected.
Have been diagnosed with PTSD, severe depression, chronic kidney failure, and of course HIV. I'd become suicidal in 2009 after 3 extreme life events in a row; My best friend killed herself in the US (I don't make friends easily BTW), my teenage/young adult daughter had me charged by the police with a minor problem, and I was diagnosed with HIV. All in three weeks.
Some say god won't give you more than you can bear, my reply is "Well what happened to me?" If not for the HIV support here in Australia and me being able to have access to it I'd likely be dead by now. Unbearable pain often causes suicide, no matter physical or mental.
Today I've not worked since being made redundant. I remain with episodes of depression and panic attacks, sometimes severe. I may be fine and happy to leave the house, at times I'm paralised in bed, secure and safe and not willing to face the world.
Have been diagnosed with PTSD, severe depression, chronic kidney failure, and of course HIV. I'd become suicidal in 2009 after 3 extreme life events in a row; My best friend killed herself in the US (I don't make friends easily BTW), my teenage/young adult daughter had me charged by the police with a minor problem, and I was diagnosed with HIV. All in three weeks.
Some say god won't give you more than you can bear, my reply is "Well what happened to me?" If not for the HIV support here in Australia and me being able to have access to it I'd likely be dead by now. Unbearable pain often causes suicide, no matter physical or mental.
Today I've not worked since being made redundant. I remain with episodes of depression and panic attacks, sometimes severe. I may be fine and happy to leave the house, at times I'm paralised in bed, secure and safe and not willing to face the world.
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- NSW gov official apology for 1978 Mardi Gras viole...
- "How did you get it?" - an invasion of privacy, in...
- A note to spammers saying they have an HIV cure
- "Hands of love" - Miley Cyrus
- I nearly died in hospital special Christmas edition
- A Warning: Tenofovir and Naproxen
- When I got Shingles
- Helpful Ways to Stay Healthy with HIV - Guest post
- Telling your family that you're HIV positive - guest post
Assorted Links
- - ACON
- - Ambassadors & Bridge Builders International
- - Dave's blog: Life living with HIV
- - Guide to Australian HIV Laws and Policies
- - Know the Risk: HIV transmission
- - National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS
- - National LGBTI Health Alliance
- - Newly Diagnosed?
- - Positive Life NSW
- - Positive Living Centre
- - Project X, WA info and support for gay men
- - Right Wing Watch
- - Rob's blog: Surviving AIDS, PML....and Me
- - Suicide.....Read this first
- - Thinking Positive
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- Lieberals lose Queensland! Newman loses seat!
- Newman first premier in 100 years to lose his seat
- Lieberals chicken out at a challenge to Abbott
- Remember this today when voting Queensland
- The battle for Ashgrove
- What are you sorry for Newman? - GetUp video
- Queensland, vote to save the Reef - GetUp video
- Queensland election eve
- Australains say Abbott is a dick head - video
- All gays will be cannibals by 2016 - US wacko pastor
- Lieberals now actively plotting against Abbott :)
- Corporate tax dodgers - sign GetUp's senate submis...
- Canberra Lieberal stereotypes and insults online c...
- Unions say put the Lieberals last in Queensland
- Protesters interrup TTP hearing!
- Death in a can - Australians use nitrogen to end t...
- Media speculation on Abbott's replacement
- Newman going down in Ashgrove
- Cartoonists worry about no work after Abbott - fir...
- Chicken dance Lieberal accused of assault
- Murdoch advises Abbott on Twitter - sack Credlin
- Murdoch paper turns on clown Abbott :)
- GetUp's excellent TPP video
- Rally for the Reef - message to QLD voters - Byron...
- "The age of entitlement is over" - SSJoe, but Philip?
- "I am a lesbian" - The danger of hiding who you are
- Lieberal leadership rumblings grow louder
- Abbott calls internet "electronic graffiti"
- Australia day today - First dog on the moon :)
- The Royal Commission non-evidence - Victorian bik...
- The super embarrassing Fox News terror "experts"
- Say no to Abbott creating a US style working poor
- Lambi tells the defence force to put the Lieberals...
- The Queensland bikie peril! - Premier Newman
- Lieberal QLD election email - insulting
- Abbott's industrial relations agenda - cartoon :)
- France convicts three for tweeting "Let's burn the...
- Buying politicians - Russell Brand & George Monbiot
- The impossibility of Housing
- Angry Aussie - Alan Jones & Queensland election
- Companies pushing for no penalty rates, shut "out ...
- How much tax do Australians really pay? - ACOSS
- Ten Fox News lies
- Manus Island; "Gitmo of the Pacific" - internation...
- Newman's dumbest idea - destroy the Great Barrier ...
- SSJoe still ignorant of tax rates
- Richard Dawkins reads gay hate mail, hilarious :)
- Bad news with David's new job
- Sick for a week
- Lieberal Queensland candidate has bizarre brain sn...
- Leaked video - Newman say no to coal Galilee Bason
- The knives are out for Abbott - Lieberal breaking ...
- Stop big pharma killing India's cheap medicine
- The "gay agenda" - Anderson Cooper
- Housing bad news, some good
- 14 years in Gitmo without charge - diary of torture
- Zach and Natasha - cat love
- Pope wants climate change action
- Heading for extinction - humans
- Current farming practices are unsustainable for th...
- Lieberals park in disabled parking space - Queensland
- Newman "couldn't run a chook raffle" - Alan Jones
- Official acceptance letter arrives - Dept of Justice
- Wilderness Society message to Queensland voters :)
- How to reduce Medicare costs - ACOSS
- Cairns election sign, brilliant :)
- Brilliant Aussie song for Queensland voters :)
- Lieberal unemployment since the budget
- Psycho nephew will have to pay NSW gov $ for David...
- Two straight men hold hands in street - are abused...
- Microwave explosion, OMG!
- Ex Lieberal election add against Queensland Lieber...
- Abbott insisted on Medicare cuts in heated debate ...
- Betty White's 93rd Birthday Flash Mob :) - video
- Abbott was rolled on the Medicare cuts
- Medicare is not in a funding crisis - Lieberal lies
- Not looking good for the Lieberals in Queensland
- GetUp Queensland election add - Save the Reef
- "Why McDonalds is McFucked" - Abby Martin
- Australian Unions vow to defend Medicare
- Printer rage!
- David to get special victims of crime counseling
- Gov ditches Medicare cuts in humiliating defeat
- Abbott's hypocrisy on the senate killing the Medic...
- Europeans overestimate their Muslim populations - ...
- Ellen responds to anti-gay Pastor - video :)
- Labor vows to fight Abbott's new GP tax - senate t...
- The ad Doritos doesn't want you to see
- Victoms of crime compensation claim accepted
- In bed all day, sick again
- Pastor proudly king hits kid in chest
- Put the Lieberals last in Queensland - Australian ...
- David's eye injury from the assault - pic of face
- Off to the eye hospital today
- Shooting of Charlie Hebdo - video
- Kitty Zach conks out - cute pics :)
- David's Amazing cacti - pics
- Full statements made to police, nephew assault on ...
- Victoria Labor gov kills any GST increase
- Panti Bliss does a TED talk - video :)
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