M.R.

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M.R.

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Hello my people,

Please forgive me for not using my full name. My name is MR. I am a 29 year old mother of two lovely kids. I was diognosed HIV in August 2004. I was not sick at that time when i decided to take a test. I just told my self to go and test. I think it was all God's work. I don't know where i got that strength because i was very strong.

The doctor gave us a brief Couselling and the same time he drew my blood. They told us to come after 2pm to get our results as it was between 10 and 11am. At 2:30 i went back to get my results. I was very confindent that my results will come out negative because i was very faithfull to my husband. You see i knew that he was not faithfull to me but i didnt think that he can be + because he was still in a good shape.

So i got in the small room to get my results. The Doctor told me tha i had HIV 1 and 2.I didn't believe it i thought it was just a joke. But unfortunately it wasn't. It was a serious thing. I was really HIV+.

I went straight home from there. I couldn't tell my husband as i was very angry with him for giving me this horrible disease. But after few days i decided to tell him, he was wondering what was wrong with me because i was always moody. So we decided to go to the Doctor to find the next step. My husband started ARV's that day because his CD4 Count was under 100. Mine was over 400.

Even though it was hard for me to know that i was living with HIV, but you see deep down in my heart i knew that i will not die because of AIDS. Sometimes it was very difficult especially when i look at my kids but there was this strong person in me that will remind me that i will live long to see my kids grow. It has been 4 good years now and im still living a healthy and beautiful life.

I know that i will see my 6year old baby boy grow to be a handsome man.

We all have a purpose in life and untill  we all fulfill our diffrent purposes we cannot perish.

Live positively positive long lifes. Love you all.