'There are an alarming amount of, not just the public, but also people living with HIV that still don’t know that effective treatment means you can have HIV negative children – there’s clearly an urgent need for more education on this.'
. Taking it was a constant reminder of my status that I couldn’t bring myself to face.
After my diagnosis, my mum got tested and it was positive. There wasn’t HIV testing in pregnancy in 1988 – this wasn’t introduced until 1993.When I was younger, I was forced treatment by the hospitals and my family; I was prescribed 16 pills a day, twice a day – but the side effects started to take their toll.
I was shocked, angry and terrified – I thought I was going to die. Suddenly, being ill my entire childhood made sense. I confronted my family and consultants, extremely angry, and even threw a chair and walker out of a meeting with the doctors. At the time, I was 20 and my firstborn was just two years old. There are no words to describe just how much my heart shattered that day. The pain of watching my mum die was unbearable; in that moment, I had nothing left inside me.I isolated myself from the outside world for three months. My partner at the time looked after my son due to my depression of the loss of my mum. I was destroyed and just didn’t want to be alive anymore.
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