"im HIV positive, can u hug me?"
if someone asked u to do that, will u do that???
actually, today i wanna talk about HIV. because, this afternoon i've just seen a case of married couple where the husband was negative for 3 times, but the wife was positive just in one shot. plz, im telling u this story not to humiliate them, but i want u and me to chase out all the bad thoughts about HIV's patients.
yes, the situation was soo tense. everyone was looking at the strip. either it was positive or negative.
and when the result turned to be positive, everything went silent. everything.......including me. that time, i couldnt think. blank. i know, it wasnt my blood, i was not the one who did the test. but, it felt like im the one. and just try to imagine, if u r in that wife's shoe.
actually the husband was a drug abuser. currently on methadone replacement therapy. and should we blame the husband????
i wanna stress here that the husband was taken that test 3x for the past 1 1/2 years and all of them were negative.
and should we blame the wife???? i cant decide. because im not the one that should decide.
but, i like how the husband handled the situation. he was so calm and positive. he knew that he can get that virus from his wife or already have that virus, but he never showed any disappointment or anger towards his wife.
it is difficult to change what our society thinks about HIV. even me, myself....have a problem about that. i got an uncle who died because of HIV, i had handle one HIV patient personally before, but im still got that 'tiny little small' problem about HIV. i'm afraid. that's it.
but....after years of trying to chase that thought out.... i think im succesfully rid them away today after seeing the love between this couple, the love from a very responsible husband to a wife and the willingness of the husband to take the blame although he was negative.
they might be retroviral positive, but they are human too. they got a feeling like us and because of that, we have no right at all to be judgemental towards them.
"you are HIV positive, can i hug u?"
