Nomad JuanCa's Report

Today is such a wonderful day in here. Not too hot not too cold. Not too shiny not too dark. I like days like this, it remind me Moscow in the mornings, except for the fact that there is no Kremlin in here :( buuu.....

I have several plans for today, i have to go downtown to pay some stuff and then i might be visiting my niece to see how she is doing after her accident. I will try to spend most of the day and then go back to work by 4pm. There are exciting news coming from work, the company have appointed and new General Sales Manager who will focus on large accounts, which is great. My boss got her mom under surgery, i hope she is doing fine, the lady is very nice person.

I finally got some info about hearing loss and Hiv, i haven't read it all yet but i will today afternoon, but as for what i heard it is not a big issue in these days, being that ARV therapy is available and could prevent me from facing this. I gotta read this well, i have heard cases in Ecuador about people facing lot of troubles due to opportunistic infections and facing some of their capabilities. As for Toxoplasmosis, i told Claudia, who wanted to give me lil cat, that i could not take it... i usually like pets, though cats are not my preferred ones.. i like more dogs, anyways i would not accept a cat being the risk of toxoplasmosis in the future. Plus my schedule is sort of complex, i think i will perhaps accept a "low maintenance" pet, perhaps small fishes... i have always wanted to have those, or birds.

When i was working at Los Ceibos, an upper class neighbourhood.. i found once a house that was like a dream. They have a nice yard not too big where they grew up bonsais and some birds too... the birds were so used to the environment that they went in and out of the house freely, even dogs saw birds and didn't attack them it was like a dream... i think i would like to have something like that one day.

I was worrying the other day about the changes or challenges i would face being hiv+ as i get older.. i mean ageing brings its own challenges, perhaps being older and hiv+ could be harder. I don't know. I think (not sure) it also depends on how long have you been living with the disease... as for me by the time i cross the barrier of 50 i would be already living 20 years with the disease... long time, don't you think?. I hope during those 20 years the expectancy of living has changed, here in Ecuador i was told that using ARV people would live a minimum of 20 years after starting therapy, it was sort of funny/sad when i first heard this... i remember when i was first diagnosed and everybody used to tell me "don't worry you will live 20 years yet" "everything will be fine at least you will have 20 years time to adjust to everything". Second or third time i met Claudia i remember clearly i asked her "Why everybody is telling me i will live 20 years?? i mean why 20??" She replied "Because that's the standard of living expected after someone starts therapy" and i asked her "but why 20?... what will happen after that?". She said "i don't know...". The illness itself is quite "new" 25 years until now.. there have been people diagnosed this time and still alive.. but unfortunately it is not a majority... still with that, 20 years is pretty good time, i mean i don't have plans for all that time yet... i have to organise my time lol. Not sure right now if i would like to live all that time, i mean if things get harder and stuff like that... who knows.. i still don't know what else can happen, so far i am doing well with the illness, not much troubles and that scares me sometimes (isn't it weird... i mean to worry because of not having health problems), so I'll see.

Luz, tonight i will post the song from Artem you asked me, and will provide the link to Walter's musical site. I haven't forgotten about it. Gotta run to do my stuff now, have a great day!!

Labels: New life, same illness