The 10th Carnival of Positives is up at Transcending Gender An excellent blog by Jennifer Burke

In Nightmare Hall, The Dreamer wrote about his ongoing medical complications both with disease and with treatment:

A big part of living for an extended time with illnesses like cancer and HIV is going for regular followup tests, scans and blood work . . . . I’ve encountered a lot of long term (15 to 20 or more years) HIV survivors over the years. Some have never had any problems, major or minor. Others have battled one infection after another but still keep going. Some have experienced no major side effects from the HIV cocktail medications, while others like me have been carted off to the ER too many times to count from toxicities . . . If it wasn’t for living with HIV, I would have written this episode off to just having a nasty passing bug, but being where I am, it was better to be safe than sorry. There is that possible hazard of developing pneumonia, which I do not need.

Tags: HIV/AIDS; Carnival of Postives