Hello everyone again

Hi,

Hope everyone had an amazing spring break! It seems like it was way to short, but that is how it always is. This week is going to be a pretty long one trying to catch up on sleep and school work, especially due to the fact that are semester is closing soon. Last week we had to watch three or four movies and right different reviews on them. My favorite movie was Sliverlake Life, it was a self made documentary about a homosexual couple who both contracted HIV. The movie went over the problems with HIV/AIDS from symptoms to the publics reaction. To me they were the cutest couple ever and it was really sad when they filmed Tom dying. It showed his body being put in a bag and he was so skinny. Also, this video showed how bad the KS lesions really are, and by the end of the movie both Mark and Tom's bodies were covered in them. It was a really good movie to watch and I would recommend that you should watch it too.

Also this week we were told to wright about what we would do if we went to find a new dentist and put down that we were HIV positive and had to wait for a long time only to find out that the workers were talking out loud about are HIV condition and then tell us that the doctor was not accepting anymore patients. I would tell them to put me on the waiting list for when the doctor was accepting new patients and also ask if there were any names before me, just to be a pain since the doctor would then have to take me before he could take anymore patients. And then I would tell them that they would be hearing from my lawyers soon about the unlawful disclosure of my HIV status. It is so unacceptable that some people act this way, it is like your an outcast just because you have a disease that no one has found a cure for.

Did you Know:

In this weeks did you know I decided to research herbal remedies for HIV/AIDS patients since learning about them through the Silverlake Life movie. The main remedy I found was herbal cures. According to lifepostivie.com herbal medicine does not only help improve the immune system, but also helps fight off HIV/AIDS with certain herbs that target the disease. Also, different herbal medicines help fight off other opportunistic infections related to HIV and AIDS according to lifepositive.com. Another alternative medicine from lifepostivie.com is called HyperBaric Oxygen treatment, which involves inhaling pure, pressurized oxygen. It is supposed to help alleviate fatigue ,numbness, and other opportunistic infections from AIDS, according to lifepositive.com. It is really hard to prove if Allopathic or Holistic medicine works better mainly on the fact that there is not enough research in Holistic medicine to have hard numbers to prove its effectiveness.

References

Life Positive. (2010). Natural Treatment for HIV/AIDS. (March 16,2010). http://www.lifepositive.com/Body/body-holistic/AIDS/natural-treatment-for-aids.asp

Tom Joslin, Peter Frediman. (1993). Sliverlake Life, USA, Zeitgeist Films.