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Pozhet
Living in Australia HIV positive
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"Boy Erased" new trailer, before release this Friday
David and I can't afford going to the movies, but this is released on Friday in the US and Nov 8th here in Australia. Perhaps the loc...
Marriage equality despite Turnbull
We'll never forget...
A "proud HIV+ gay man"
Down under
From 2011: took 6 more years
David and I
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Example, African man says he can cure HIV with herbs I've had so much spam over the life of this blog from Africa, saying that Dr bl...
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Penny Wong of Labor tells how hurtful it's already been to the LGBT in Australia with the public debate so far about marriage equali...
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Haven't visited Homo History for ages. A lot of new stuff there. For some reason it's quite fascinating to look at old pictu...
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It's time for me to end the Endone. *sigh* Have had to be a honest about it. It was good to have this as it took away all the ...
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Major supermarkets across Australia have banned single use plastic bags at their checkouts, meaning that customers have to buy more st...
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Oh look, gays in Sochi.......
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Sanders is correct when he points out that Trump got it right when he said Australia has a better health care system than the US. Altho...
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Just stay behind your walls Trump..... As the US turns in on itself in some kind of theological self immolation to protest against 30...
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This is where I went today Oh joy! (Random Googled pic) Visited the MRI place today. Strangely it was at the Sydney football stadiu...
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Could the robodebt debacle get any worse? The ongoing senate inquiry in to Centrelink robodebt has found that the gov is using taxpay...
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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- Congress chucks a hissy fit
- New years eve
- Bryan's cancer story
- Fiscal cliff jitters
- HIV meds, day 14
- Australia's smoking laws
- Falling down the stairs
- Free speech threatened by gun lobby
- Day 12, HIV meds
- Boxing Day sales in the city
- Christmas with David
- Mardi gras painting
- Betty Bowers rings Westboro Baptist Church
- Christmas day, HIV meds day 10
- Getting help for depression
- Cat pic
- HIV meds - day 8
- Children of Pakistan - death by drones
- Will Abbott be our next PM?
- US stars demand gun control
- Simon and David meet
- HIV meds, day 6, am not well
- Delta Goodrem - Lost Without You
- HIV meds, day 5
- All The Lovers - Kylie
- The real Tony Abbott
- Day of action against DHL - update
- Doctor visit & day 4 HIV meds
- Anonymous Attacks Westboro Baptist Church
- Sunrise - USA massacre
- HIV meds, day 3
- One month with David
- Insane Walmart gun, 1200 rounds a minute :s
- Best beer coaster ever
- Brainwashed by the Machine
- The right to blow each other away
- The dance
- Starting HIV meds tomorrow
- Assange wants to start a political party
- A big doctors visit
- Sex in the city
- The David and Simon issue
- Union int. day of action against DHL
- Stomach better
- Save the Reef - Greenpeace
- Prank call DJ's interviewed
- Suicide attempt, 9yr old, immigration detention
- I feel like shit
- Legalise marijuana
- Kangaroo exports to Russia
- Nurses suicide after Sydney prank call
- Abbott's cement mixing
- Policeman killed
- Lady Antebellum - Need You Now (2010 Remix)
- NASA satelite - Australia at night
- He's got my heart
- Christmas approaches
- Uganda's gay hate law
- Gillard declares end of the world
- Emergency bed
- Marriage "illegal"
- Psychologist visit
- Unions pressuring Abbott re manufacturing
- Fatigued
- Abbott's slush (fund)
- Pet snake
- World AIDS Day
- Heart-breaker
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