Steve from England

I am heading back here to Blogger. Over the next year I am phasing out all my domain names and will just go totally Google

Look, this M.E./CFS thing doesn't come with choices so that you know. I don't just think to myself that I feel a little sleepy so I'll snuggle in for a nice nap, that doesn't happen. I get to a point, way beyond tiredness during every day when I stop functioning on any sort of normal level. I struggle to make a cup of tea, I can't remember what I am doing, two cups of tea and you'd think it was a Krypton Factor test! I'll start heading to the toilet and forget where I was going and go somewhere else. I'll walk several times toward the kitchen to do a meal and never get there. Quite likely I'll go there to take my meds and totally forget my meds when I get there ... at least I can tell now when I have forgotten them! When I go for a nap it is because I just as well be comfortable, not sleeping isn't an option. It's not like I wake up feeling refreshed, I don't but I am able to function a little more than before for a while un...

Is it safe to have sex with someone who is HIV+? It can be, it is certainly totally OK to have a relationship with them and love them totally. It has to be remembered that everyone who is HIV+ got that way because they didn't take precautions. Sure, some just didn't care, they fucked whoever they wanted to hell with the consequences, that's a reality, both men and women. I've never told anyone this before but, the very first time a guy fucked me (when I was drunk and sleeping), he didn't use anything. He didn't know his status, he didn't care what his status was. By the time I was aware what was happening it was too late. Truth is, I was raped yet I did nothing about it because he was my friend, I trusted him and I was stupidly naive. I did get myself tested and I was OK but, he didn't know that, he didn't care. I could easily have been HIV+ myself now because I trusted someone. I was later in another relationship, it was an open relationsh...