Was talking with one of my students today, who is 4 years older than me (so, 60 to my 56 y i k e s) and we were discussing that - his line was "i went to a funeral every month for years running" and going thru what years our friends were diagnosed, what years they died, who was still left.
Beyond 💔💔💔
Yeah, been there.
<3 <3 <3
As a tail end generation Xer, only a coworker died from AIDS in the early 2000s; now I have an older millennial friend HIV positive that have the disease under control for 10 years and counting. The difference done by antiretroviral drugs is miraculous.
my closest friend from high school got diagnosed in 1996, at which point it still seemed like a certain death sentence, and he's still with us because of those. i needed post-exposure prophylaxis after a potential exposure in 2007 and even the idea that such a thing was possible was amazing.