Motivation Needed

This week I am so overwhelmed with the amount of school work and personal things I have to accomplish. I have three tests, seven assignments, and I just found out that I have a lot of family coming in for Easter so that gave me a whole list of errands to do. The worst part is that I have no motivation and really don’t want to do any of it. The weather has been so beautiful that all I want to do it go lie on the beach and forget the world. It’s nice to dream, right?

Module eight has been rather stressful. Trying to keep up with all the pills and trying to picture having HIV just keeps giving me anxiety! Also this weeks QOTW made me think about my relationship with my mom and how bad things used to be between us and how great they are now. Thinking about telling my mom that I had HIV was uncomfortable. I tried to think what really would happen but my mom can be so unpredictable that I really wouldn’t have any idea how she would react. I just hoped for the best and wrote how I would hope she would react to the situation.

This class makes me think about things that I normally wouldn’t think about of even want to think about. Sometimes it is a good thing because I think of how I would react to situations and I learn about myself. Other times it just makes me feel nervous and stressed. I am not going to lie. I am going to be happy when this class is over. I mean I am thankful that I have learned so much and that I keep learning but I hate picturing myself having HIV and how my life would be. I am a lot more grateful for the life I have and how blessed I am. So I guess that it a good thing!


Did You Know: Children with HIV

There are many problems faced by children living with HIV. A major one is not receiving the proper drug therapy (AVERT, 2010). An estimated 62% of children infected with HIV are not receiving drug therapy (AVERT, 2010). This is because of the lack of drugs available, high drug prices, and lack of trained health care workers to treat these children (AVERT, 2010). Many of the young children have trouble swallowing so they need the drugs in the forms of syrups or powders but these are not available (AVERT, 2010). So to treat them they are given adult tablets that are broken into smaller pieces and this does not ensure that the children are being given the proper dosages (AVERT, 2010).

Reference List:

AVERT, (2010, March 11). Chuldren, HIV, & AIDS. Retrieved March 31, 2010, from AVERT: http://www.avert.org/children.htm

Image: (2010). Retrieved March 31, 2010, from eHOW: http://i.ehow.com/images/a05/67/jh/right-hiv-combo-800X800.jpg