There is a different kind of pain in realizing the people who gave you life aren't necessarily the people who make you feel safe.
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For a long time, I thought silence was protecting me. I thought if I didn't say something out loud, maybe it wouldn't feel real.
This blog was not easy to write… Yes, HIV took my motherhood… Back in those times when I was diagnosed, we had no medicine. At least, I didn't have any access to treatment in Colombia, my country...
I realized as I saw my computer screen with my grandkids, I never saw any kid grow up. Not my child, not my family's children.
So after coming home from the empowering PWN-USA and the Positive Living programs, I was feeling so empowered and then life happened. My son is 13 and has had behavioral problems since I adopted him...
I am in the process of changing HIV doctors. I am going back to the MD that I initially saw when I moved back to Missouri but at that time I was abusing prescription drugs and he saw right through me...