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By Nevin Jefferson
With some, the light bulb flickers as the thought process generates the brain. With others, it blows out the thought process leaving the thinker in the dark. With the rest, it sparks just enough light to give a dim view of the topic at hand. The un-experts at the International Aids Convention in Barcelona are at it again. Talk about your idiots in the dark! Their latest research findings or insult to one’s intelligence. Is that it would be just genius to wait for a person’s immune system to deteriorate to hell before starting HIV therapy. Not only would this be grand, it would be cheaper. At who’s expense? Not one dime is coming out of their pockets, so why should they concern themselves with cost? Duh? Isn’t this why we have preventive maintenance to begin with? For the sole purpose of prolonging one’s life not ending it at a rapid rate. They also conclude that early HIV treatment is the reason for people living longer which should be a good thing. They also concluded that it costs $34,000+ year plus for medication treatment for people with Aids/HIV. We’re back to costs again, gang! I’ll ask again, at whose expense? The patient? Or to save Medicare and Insurance companies money? It would be much cheaper to insure a person short-term instead of long-term. This study is based on a one conducted of 25 people versus the countless thousands who live with it. The French tossed in their findings as an effort to make it sounder. It still falls on deaf ears! These findings should have stayed lost without hope of every being found. Do you think that I’m going to believe a group of people from a Country where they use city streets as a public bathrooms, are rude, and eat strange food that moves on the plate? No way! There are different reasons for taking a “Drug Holiday” ones that make more sense than the nonsense being presented to us. One is that some people can’t tolerate the anti-viral drugs that make them sicker than the virus would in the future. Yes gang, there are people who are better off not doing an impersonation of a medicine cabinet. For this group, the drugs make them look sicker in appearance and they feel like they’re at death’s door with a broken doorbell. Their body never comes out of the body trauma that these meds cause when first used. This is when their light bulb comes on giving them a clear view of the situation that they’re dealing with. Why take medications that are causing more harm than good? Old adage has it that the Aids medications will either cure you or kill you! This hold true for the above mentioned who either go on alternative medications, Herbal viral mediations (that Medicare and some Insurance companies don’t cover due to cost.), or make peace with themselves and God and take it from there. There are a few people who refuse to get on a drug regime period, just for the general principal and not wanting to go through what they’re seeing. With them, its why prolong the agony? Not that I can blame them, but still, everything has its price. The cost is too great for their own personal reasons and logic with my respecting their decision to do such. Hey, to each his or her own. My sexy friend is talking herself blue in the face to her best friend who’s Full Blown who’s taking this route. The key factor in her taking the meds is that the woman has two kids and children need their mother. Mommy’s sick! Kids can deal with this better than Mommy upped and died on us without trying to do anything about it. The person in question does let the light bulb come on and goes on the medications until she can’t stand it any longer. My sexy friend is trying to convince her friend that Mother’s make sacrifices for their children and this is one of them. Like it or not! If you see two Black women going at it in the street, chances are that its them! There are others who take a “Drug Holiday” to cleanse their bodies from the toxics in the medications. I used to wear a tee-shirt that read; “Toxic Waste” for grins and giggles and to make people aware of the reality that I was living. You’re advised to drink tons and tons of water with the meds and throughout the day. Do some of us suffer from water bloat age? Yes! Do the most majority of Aids Viral medications have adverse effects to medications to stop water bloat age? Yes they do! Do your feet and ankles swell due to this? Yes, they do! So, do I drink tons and tons of water? No, I don’t! Does my Doctor know? Well, after reading this, he will now! There are most of us who take a “Drug Holiday” to stop the side effects caused by the toxics in the medications. My best friend who’s a long-term survivor is going through the hells of lypodystrophy and can’t take any protease inhibitors or a good number of the viral medications. He has fat pockets around his ears, no neck, and a giant buffalo hump on his back. He’s not the Leather stud that I met 16 years ago with the use of a cane not helping his ego any. He’s in total discomfort with his constantly chanting; “Lord take me now!“ He’s on the waiting list go undergo the extensive surgery needed to rid his body of this hideous deformation of obesity. The fat is embedded in his spine, which is going to add difficulty to this procedure. Of course, Medicare didn’t want to foot the bill for this until they got a life or death situation letter from my friend’s Doctor and colleagues who are leading experts in this field. A letter writing campaign followed this up from a Activist who has been there, suffered that, and still has the tension headaches from it also helped his case. I just hope that the waiting list isn’t as long as the Wall of China. Another reason for a “Drug Holiday” is when your body goes into resistance and the virus goes into mutation. Yes, this is when you become a walking SCI-FI movie. This topic has yet to come up at the Conference and since it’s a issue that merits attention, it probably won’t. When you’ve gone through every drug on the market with them all batting zero, what’s the point in taking them? Why take something that’s making you sicker than a dog to begin with when you don’t have to? Made perfectly good sense to me! Did my health improve without HIV therapy? No! My CD4 count plunged to three which I promptly named after the Three Stooges. When my health started deteriorating due to my not taking any medications did it help when my Doctor put me on a regime to keep the virus from ravishing my body? Yes and No! My CD4 count jumped up to a lucky 13 which I named after the 13 Colonies. Think quick, name them! Did the Drug Holiday help the people whom I’ve come into contact with? Not really, their CD4 counts took the plunge as well with one person naming his after the 50 States. Backwards! Think quick, recite them! So, is waiting for a person’s immune system to deteriorate before starting treatment something to celebrate about or to get shot at dawn about? Think quick, pick one! They don’t think that this will impose any serious danger towards people with AIDS/HIV. They need to conduct their research with more than 25 people, then and only then will they get a clue. Oh, these idiots do advise that you consult your Doctor before taking a “Drug Holiday”. They’re smart enough not to be held libel for any of this misinformation. The light bulb was on for that one, gang! Me? I don’t won’t my CD4 count dropping like the stock market or putting my health in jeopardy. And so what if it costs $34,000 + a year for HIV therapy, it’s going towards a million dollar ass!