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DON’T READ THIS IF YOU ARE EASILY DISTURBED!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I have been taking care of some of my own needs and not spending any time writing lately, mostly due to some really nasty days dealing with side effects from some of my medications and also because my body is showing signs of fatigue and wearing down. This isn’t particularly fun, and many days I miss the times of my past, when I had more energy than I ever used up. Now things are different and I am just enjoying the one or two days a week when I do have the energy I need. I have spent a load of time watching TV, reading and some time in the kitchen baking and just enjoying private time. One of the channels that I so mu...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - March 1, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

HIV Lite……………………Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Listen up please! This is hopefully the last time I am going to try to explain this very disturbing phrase. In November, when I felt it no longer helpful for me to be a participant in the Living with HIV forum on this site; I stated that many of the newly infected, ( and I never created the differentiation between “newbies” and “oldies”) have a very difficult time to understand the total discipline and dedication that it takes for many members on this site to remain healthy and to readily have a constant and uninterrupted supply of medications so that their HIV can be described as a minor interruption in their liv...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - January 30, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Brain FogEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion; if you are having what we all call “brain fog”, I would highly suggest that you go ahead and set some goals to “simplify” your life and get rid of those things that you can’t impact, or do anything about and just leave the things that you can impact. Along with that, make sure you are getting enough sleep, and have a diet that is not loaded with fat, which can bring down your energy levels. Drink loads of water, and sooner than later your fogginess will more than likely be reduced to a level that you can live with. I truly can tell you that three months of focus on this problem has given me so much...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - January 29, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

TimeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Here we are in 2007, a milestone that few in my world ever expected me to make. I guess the significance of that statement must be weighed by the fact that 1983 was the beginning of my life with this bug on board. Fun little story here. When I was a senior in High School, the subject of my final paper in school was assigned to us by the teacher, and we were then responsible for creating an intelligent discussion of the subject matter. The teacher got up and announced, about two months ahead of the due date, that the subject of this year’s composition would be “Time”. OK, I said to myself, and went on my way. A full...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - January 9, 2007 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Passive Indifference…..Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
What can be said about El Nino? As we proceed into the future, and as we make every attempt to change the mind of the sleeping president of the largest economy in the universe; we are reminded that time marches on, and things just will happen. I guess you would have to have been sleeping under a rock not to be aware that we are trundling down a road of no return with the accumulation of foreign substances, and possibly irreversible changes in our air. As far back as 1964, when I had a job in downtown Los Angeles, and was going to school in La Mirada; I lived in a garage across the street from the College that I was atten...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - December 29, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

HIV Disease Management……Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
For those of you who know me and my views; you might know how I feel about this subject and then maybe not. Much has been said about the new phrase “HIV is now a Manageable Disease”. This phrase is used by the most informed sources including CNN, FOX, all political parties, and most medical communities. For someone who has been living with HIV for 23 years, this is pretty much a slap in the face. Hell, I haven’t been managing HIV for the last 23 years? No, that is not what is meant. Last night, a dear friend called me from New Zealand, and expressed a total lack of understanding of the discussion about HIV being a...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - December 2, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Losing…..Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Loss is something that anyone living with HIV for 23 years might be well adjusted to, but alas, maybe not so much. Wonder where I am going with this? I will tell you. Last winter I, along with several long term survivors of HIV/AIDS, communicated at length about “Brain Fog”, which few in the medical community will either recognize or deal with. Well, it is now happening again, and for me, it is terrifying. I am constantly wishing myself back into my shell, much as a turtle does when threatened with anything which might be dangerous to their health, or life. You ask a good question; how does he speak about BF so very...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - November 27, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

OK, Time for More ThrivingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This time, I would like to bring you home to illustrate a bit of Thriving that is currently going on in my world. In December of last year, Mark, my 1994 Lincoln Mark VIII, wrote one of my Blogs and it can be linked here. http://blogs.poz.com/tim/archives/2005/12/mark.html Well, Mark is aging, and while it is still a very complete and perfect example of what can only be described as a Low number One car, to a High number Two example, at the very least. In the world of collectible automobiles, there is a numbering system to let buyers and owners figure out if a car is worth the money, and show judges use this system in Con...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - October 6, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

DismayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Currently, there are some conversations going on in the Forums that I want to comment on here. I don’t feel comfortable commenting in the Forums themselves, for reasons that will become apparent as you read on. Recently, I went to Montreal Canada, to meet with about 40 other people living with HIV/AIDS. We stayed in a hotel on the edge of a very mixed, but predominantly Gay village in the downtown area. Cities all over the planet have such neighborhoods, and it wasn’t a remarkable or different place from the Gay village in San Francisco, New York, or in fact London or Sydney. I was shocked to learn that some of the ...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - October 2, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Living in the Here and NowEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Many of you have mailed me over the last three months, with some interesting requests for my explanation of how one “thrives with HIV”. I have been haunted by the answer to this question, and my trip to Montreal really sharpened my resolve to answer this one with the best answers I know. I was able to pass the question on to a few of the members, not the least of whom was Andy Velez, our resident sage on truly “Living with AIDS”. You know this is one very complex, but at the same time one of the simplest quandaries I have experienced in the last 23 years. I truly think it begins and ends with “honoring who yo...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - September 7, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

ChangesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I want so much to share with all of you, but I am having such a difficult time dealing with today, and every day lately, that I am really not very good at this presently. To update you on what is going on in my life; last Thursday I resigned as Executive Director of the AIDS Service organization here, and a wonderful woman has taken over. She is the Chair of the Health Committee of the NAACP, and has always been focused on the needs of People Living with HIV/AIDS, and was the president of the board for a year and a half. I will be staying on as a Consultant, and also will do any public speaking, or teaching that might be...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - June 19, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

The American WayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
OK, as you can see, I have been off line for some time, to try to keep my focus on some of the things in my life that needed more attention. For the last few weeks, there has been a tiny detail of my life that has caused me more and more grief. I want to know what happened to the “Gay Movement”? When I was younger, and fresh out of the United States Army, there were hundreds, if not thousands of people that were fighting this bullshit society on all fronts. It was 1970, and the war with the American Psychiatric Association was heating up, and in 1971 or ’72, we were finally declared “normal” humans, in the eyes ...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - May 10, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

Rape of PrivacyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I love doing the historical Blogs, but unfortunately life keeps raising its ugly head. So I am sitting here and watching the CNN show, Lou Dobbs; and a story comes on that tells us the IRS has decided to allow tax preparations companies to sell YOUR private tax return information to the highest bidder, and they keep the profits, giving you nothing but a continuing headache in attempting to keep your information private. There is no oversight, and only one small statement is signed at tax preparation time, and you have sold your soul. Most of you are by now aware of the small arrows that are taped to documents that say �...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - March 23, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs

I Just Do Not Know What To SayEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
On Thursday, March 16, 2006; a decision was made by the President of the United States, which we should all protest with all our spirit and all our energy. I am placing an article here for you to read, that has been excerpted from POZ Magazine’s e-mail service. It left me speechless, and ties in very nicely to Joe Killfoile’s latest Blog entry. For those of you who live in countries around the globe that don’t think you will be affected by this event, please read it anyway. There are a striking number of countries that pattern their health policies after the United States, and thus this will affect you someday. Bu...
Source: Tim's HIV Blog - March 18, 2006 Category: HIV AIDS Source Type: blogs