Thank you medical science. Back when I was first diagnosed, I took 32 pills a day, 16 of them "horse pills". I had to drink 15 glasses of water to do it. I used to lie in the bathtub, belly down, to deal with the side effects. Once I called an ambulance the reaction was so bad.

Five to seven years they said. And the last few would be ugly.

For the last two years I've been on a two pill a day regimen.

On Friday my new meds were delivered and I just opened them now. I thought they'd made a mistake. There was only one type.

Turns out ... they've created a combined medication for the combo I was taking. I have not become immune to it. It's working. I'm undetectable viral load. An obscenely healthy t-cell count.

Thank you medical science.

One pill a day.

And honestly, other than spending waaaaaaaay too much money in those 5-7 years, it's probably proven out to be a net positive on my life. Weird, I know. But I made choices I might not have made. Good ones, I feel - for me and my children.

Thank you medical science.

#HIV

Oh, no one should worry, that 5-7 years was um ... 25 years ago.

Hmm. Just reading up on it and there's this.

Un PC, I know, but I probably don't need any help being vaguely crazy.