How H.I.V. Changed My Life Dering the early eighties many people were unaware of the causes and effect of H.I.V. Around the age five my mother ended up meeting a man and fell in love. Life was good, until one day my mother felt horrible and had taken herself to the hospital. While she waited in the hospital room for some test results the doctor put in. As She waited had thought that it was just the common cold and nothing more. while waiting for some time the doctor finally walks in to see her and tells her the bad news that the test results were positive. From then on my mother was confused on how she contracted H.I.V. She had told herself she wasn't a lesbian and that the doctor must have mixed up the test results. Falling into a deep depression my mother worried about the amount of time she had left and what would happen to my sister and I. When picking up her medication on the way home she discovered that the pills she had received were the exact ones her boyfriend was taking for a blood infection. …show more content…
One day my mother got a knock on the door while he was at work. When she open, to her surprise there was a younger woman asking to speak to her. The women explaining to my mother that she was recently involved with her boyfriend perrier to their relationship and really tested positive for H.I.V. suggesting to do the same. My mother told the lady she was recently tested and is positive. My mother asked about their past relationship explaining that in ten years she had never heard him speak of her. The woman eyes opened wide when my mother said that. The young lady places her hands on her face and my mother asked if everything was ok. The lady went on to explains to her that she was in a relationship with him not too long ago and thought that my mother was the new girlfriend. After hearing everything the lady had said my mother got all his belongings and through them out the window before she drenches them in
As i got home from riding on the school bus i ran into my driveway then into my house.I had let out a strong yelp for my mom i heard no response back, i was confused and thought in my head ( were had my mom gone i know she doesn’t have work to day neither any arrens today,then where could my mom be?)Just as i was about to let out another yelp my sister came down stairs,she knew exactly what i was going to ask her.
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On a cold sunny day, I got the news that would change my life. A couple weeks before a family vacation to Canada, my parents decided to have my blood drawn and tested for a disease, Celiac Disease, that makes you gluten intolerant. About halfway through that trip, in a large food court, loud and crowded, in a shopping mall, my mom got a call from the doctor’s office. When she picked up the phone, the doctor said that my test came abnormal and that they would have to take another blood sample. When they took the blood sample, for the second time, the results came back as abnormal. This time the doctors said that in order to make sure that I had the Celiac Disease they would need to preform a scope. The results of the scope determined that have celiac disease.
suffered through two years of a deadly virus that no one would speak of. The virus was
My mom spoke very little to each of us and seemed to be gone longer and longer each day until Saturday, which was moving day. That Saturday I had a band concert for relay for life at my local park. As the performance came to an end my best friend and I hop in the backseat of her mom's sweltering car and crank up the radio. We listen to our favorite throwbacks as her mom speeds down the streets rushing to get me home. As we pull in the drive, an unfamiliar vehicle idles in my driveway. Inside my house lays all of my moms belongings neatly piled up by the door waiting to be taken. My mom greets me at the door and introduces me to her boyfriend. He is much taller than me and talks down to me as if I'm a child. I cut the conversation short and sit on the couch with my dog Casey as they continue moving her things. After the last item is hauled away, my mom looks at me through the glass of the front door and says “I'll pick up Casey later.” and vanishes without another
When I was 6 years old, I started having medical problems and went to many doctors but none of them knew my diagnosis. As I started getting worse, I was referred to go to the Children's Hospital in Madison. Right when we got there, the doctor immediately put me in a hospital
I woke up hoping to see my mom in the kitchen. Instead, in the kitchen I saw my dad and brother at the table. I was so worried that something bad had happened. So, I asked, “ Where is mom?” My dad said, “ She is at the hospital”. Now I was extremely shocked, it felt as if I was just shot in the stomach. All of my thoughts are rolling around in my head,, “ What could she have done, why, how?”
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Before my mom sent me and my dad off to find help, she was on the phone with the roadside assistance which seemed like forever. All of a sudden we then realized the gas station wasn’t that far down the road, at least that is what we thought. We started to walk to the gas station, our foots sinking in the mud, the cold mud rises to our ankles. We immediately turn around knowing that this wasn’t the right decision. The gas station was longer than we thought, it was not even visible. Trudging back to the car we come to find my mom on speakerphone with the phone ringing. It goes straight to
One Saturday afternoon while sitting at home feeling bored, I looked up her name up in the phone book. I dialed the number and a man's voice answered. I hung up the phone and dialed again and hung up. This went on for perhaps 2-3 minutes. Half an hour later the operator called on our telephone with my mom saying “It won't happen again.”
Erica wasn't eating for days and running a fever; so my mom took her to Austin Brackenridge Hospital. The doctor had told my mother that she had just made it in time; if she wouldn't have taken her in, she could have died. That morning, the doctor started to take her blood work, X-rays, and other tests. That's when they found out she had leukemia type A. She was only 5 years old. My mother and sister had to stay in the hospital for months because she was so ill that she couldn't go home.
When I was eight years old I learned what epilepsy was. My family was in the car driving to get dinner, with my dad driving. We were stopped at a stop light, and when it turned green we never moved. My mother looked over at my dad and realized he was having a seizure. At the time I did not know what that was; all I remember is a blur of my sister calling 911, and us going to the hospital. It was one of the scariest moments of my life; I thought my dad was dying. Later that night my mom explained to us what a seizure was, and that he was going to be okay. This was the first time my dad had a seizure, and the doctors did not know why. He was sent home from the emergency room that night with no answers and a shaken up family.
One memory resounds in my head. My mind wanders and I think about my parents. Such good people, taken in the blink of an eye. They were never supposed to get this disease. We were a wealthy family.
I was laying in my bed one morning as I woke up. I could tell something was wrong because my family was panicking and crying. The flashing lights and sirens going off from the ambulance had me wandering into the kitchen where all my family was standing. As I looked in the kitchen I saw my uncle on the ground, shaking uncontrollably. Come to find out
The end of my senior year in high school I remember being unbelievably sick, not the normal cough and cold sick either. It was more of an unceasing fever, my body was in a constant cold sweat, and the only thing I could stomach was Chick-fil-a’s chicken noodle soup. Shortly after I went in for a doctor’s appointment where I was told I had a virus that would go away within a week. Two weeks after I was thankfully feeling better with an occasional nauseous sickness. A few days followed and my boyfriend at the time surprised me with a pregnancy test. He asked if I would take it to ease his nerves due to my symptoms. So of course I took it, though every inch of me was in a panic waiting for my result. I remained in the bathroom holding my test not allowing my eyes to wander from the little screen on the white plastic stick in my hands. With my eyes peeled a single