Post by Logan on Jun 27, 2016 1:47:32 GMT -6
It’s not a date you forget — the day you were diagnosed with HIV. For Adolphus Major, that milestone was Oct. 28, 1999.
He’d had digestive problems for some time, but when he was working in Miami he got so sick that he had to be hospitalized. Two days later, the doctor told him the bad news.
Major had HIV.
On that day, the long-awaited arrival of the year 2000 was only a little more than two months away. But the doctor told Major he wouldn’t live long enough to celebrate.
Major did not believe it.
“I said, ‘OK, that’s how you feel. I’ve never died before so I don’t know how this dying thing is supposed to be, but it does not feel like I’m about to die.’”
Read more: www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/health/hiv-in-an-unexpected-place-a-quiet-epidemic-in-sw/article_40c2fb63-a21e-5258-9912-5e4c9fdb1b55.html
He’d had digestive problems for some time, but when he was working in Miami he got so sick that he had to be hospitalized. Two days later, the doctor told him the bad news.
Major had HIV.
On that day, the long-awaited arrival of the year 2000 was only a little more than two months away. But the doctor told Major he wouldn’t live long enough to celebrate.
Major did not believe it.
“I said, ‘OK, that’s how you feel. I’ve never died before so I don’t know how this dying thing is supposed to be, but it does not feel like I’m about to die.’”
Read more: www.gwinnettdailypost.com/local/health/hiv-in-an-unexpected-place-a-quiet-epidemic-in-sw/article_40c2fb63-a21e-5258-9912-5e4c9fdb1b55.html