skip to main |
skip to sidebar
The course of the HIV disease
Pozhet
Living in Australia HIV positive
Search This Blog
Translate
Featured post
"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
Most read in the last week
-
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...
-
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...
-
The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling has again analysed the Lieberal budget as it did last year. And funnily enough, it...
-
Australia's Darth Dutton (real picture BTW, not altered) Accurate comparison of Dutton's mental capacity Are Trump and Aust...
-
This is where I went today Oh joy! (Random Googled pic) Visited the MRI place today. Strangely it was at the Sydney football stadiu...
-
Could the robodebt debacle get any worse? The ongoing senate inquiry in to Centrelink robodebt has found that the gov is using taxpay...
-
Yet another video has emerged of Trump's creepy obsession with treating women like sex objects for his ego. This one more so as the g...
-
Now the blame knives are starting to come out. Rupert wants Peta sacked. More graffiti for Abbott to ignore :)
-
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...
-
OK, although I never got school certificate in English in New Zealand, I was able to migrate to Australia (in 1985) without having to und...
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.
Other pages
- Home
- Gays living near homophobes affects LGB mental, physical health & wellbeing - Australian study
- 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
The course of the HIV disease
Pozhet
Blog Archive:
-
▼
2013
(1157)
-
▼
April
(74)
- "We are the people"
- Internet rage!
- Cat ladies take Australian Christian Lobby domain ...
- "Someday Soon"
- How BP cleans up
- Why is Australia so expensive?
- Shift work affects your health
- "Rainbow Labor"
- CSG warning from US farmers
- "Tease me"
- New teeth
- David moving in next week
- Dentist nerves
- Australian Marriage Equality campaign
- Progressive Christians welcome gay marriage
- Violence erupts in Paris after marriage vote
- Greenpeace boards coal ship
- NZ MP to appear on Ellen
- France passes marriage equality
- Funnies
- Upset
- Chrissy Amphlett dies
- "Rude Awakenings" - after a drone bomb
- Meanwhile in wacko-ville.....
- Over-represented extremism
- "Speak Love"
- NSW premier announces gay marriage support
- "Fear Not" to the homophobes
- Independent thinking
- "Define Me"
- New Zealand civilised, France a basket case
- Just bought Star Trek tickets! OMG, OMG.....
- Recognise NZ gay marriages here - Greens
- Unions take on mining industry
- Australia embarrassed by NZ success
- New Star Trek trailer
- New Zealand passes marriage equality bill
- New Zealand about to pass gay marriage
- It's OK to be you
- Boston Bombing - some perspective
- "Gaysome" cartoons
- Guantanamo inmate tells his story
- Dentist visit
- The moment Uruguay passed marriage equality
- Good riddance Margaret Thatcher
- Rebel rainbow crossings
- Australia monitering Manning/Assange case
- 2 weeks off work
- Arrested for not leaving partner's bedside
- Rainbow crossing removed
- The face of homophobia
- Logie winner thanks her two mums
- Seeing a private dentist
- G-rated outdoor adds in Queensland?
- Know you rights with the cops
- Force parliamentary debate on police
- Rights of the terminally ill Bill, NSW
- Fast food poisoning
- Star Trek Trailer - Into the Darkness
- Julian Assange - bid for senate seat
- Gay marriage - straights commit fraud
- Not guilty plea - Mardi Gras bashing
- More time off for David
- Rainbow crossing's end
- N.Korea linked to gay rights
- Homosexuality is natural
- Road rage attack!
- Ellen's first day in Australia (vid)
- David has a lung infection
- Gays accused of "demonic hatred" of Christians
- Rainbow protest - Putin in Amsterdam
- "Two men in love"
- David ill
- My debit card was defrauded
-
▼
April
(74)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment