Medical update: It ’ s all good
While showing me a graph, with the trajectory of my health over the past few months, my endocrinologist remarked, “I wouldn’t have sold you life insurance in January!” Point taken. It was a rough patch, to be sure. But now… CD-4 count: 400 (the same level as when I was first diagnosed HIV+); up from […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - April 1, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV CD-4 medical update mental health type-II diabetes viral load Source Type: blogs
Medical update: It’s all good
While showing me a graph, with the trajectory of my health over the past few months, my endocrinologist remarked, “I wouldn’t have sold you life insurance in January!” Point taken. It was a rough patch, to be sure. But now… CD-4 count: 400 (the same level as when I was first diagnosed HIV+); up from […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - April 1, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV CD-4 medical update mental health type-II diabetes viral load Source Type: blogs
Out for 35 years
Reading something which noted that 1981 was 35 years ago jarred me into realizing that it was three-and-a-half decades ago this very month that I officially came out of the closet, by which I mean letting my family know that I was gay. It was in the context of the uproar over the bathhouse raids […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - February 13, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: activism AIDS and HIV autobiography coming out of the closet family homosexuality Mount Sinai Narrative Writing Group sexual orientation Source Type: blogs
Walking the walk – with assistance
First there was the pre-Christmas illness. Then, while in Perth, I went for only one walk – to the pharmacy – in a town which normally calls out for long walks. I even felt unsteady on my feet roaming around Mom’s big old house. Mom, who has been using a walker herself for a year […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - January 5, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: biography/autobiography medical update Source Type: blogs
Walking the walk – with assistance
First there was the pre-Christmas illness. Then, while in Perth, I went for only one walk – to the pharmacy – in a town which normally calls out for long walks. I even felt unsteady on my feet roaming around Mom’s big old house. Mom, who has been using a walker herself for a year […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - January 5, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: biography/autobiography medical update Source Type: blogs
Chasing the HI on a glucose meter
I spent the afternoon yesterday in the Emergency Department of Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital after a drug overdose, albeit accidental, when I tried to eliminate a “HI” reading on my glucose meter with two, then three times the recommended dosage of my insulin. It was lost on me that doubling and tripling up on a […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - December 17, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kenn Tags: autobiography health-care medical update Source Type: blogs
I’m Thinking, “This is Going to Hurt!”: On ‘How Not to Deal with Grief’
This article deeply moved me…as I suspect it will for any of you who have been impacted by the kind of grief associated with multiple loss, deaths due to overdose and or HIV/AIDS. Rather than just clicking on “like”, can you write a few sentences in […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - August 19, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: activism AIDS and HIV blog therapy friendship grief health-care homosexuality mental health Planet Earth has AIDS sexual orientation social justice stigma suicide Toronto Source Type: blogs
Sleep, no longer taken for granted, will soon be improving – hopefully
Early this month I had electrodes taped to my head, neck, chest and legs, then I was wished a good night for a sleep study to see why suddenly, to me at least, I couldn’t get a decent night of shut-eye. The results, which I received on Monday, showed that over the course of the […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - August 15, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: autobiography health-care medical update central apnea neurologist sleep disorder sleep study Source Type: blogs
On “The God Article” with Mark Sandlin: I Want My Religion Back – You Can Keep the Ugly Baggage
This post is a work in progress. Please join in with your comments! Please read this article first: I Want My Religion Back – You Can Keep the Ugly Baggage. When my friend and, to the point, Facebook friend, Lori Knight-Whitehouse posted this I replied: Kenn George Chaplin Let me know when it’s safe… 44 […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - July 28, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: activism biography/autobiography Christianism church fundamentalism social conservatives Source Type: blogs
Why I’m Marching with ACT with Pride!
My first encounter with ACT (AIDS Committee of Toronto) was in its early days operating over what at the time was a KFC take-out restaurant. Compassion and information deep-fried! I was still living in St. Catharines, Ontario in those days, those early days of HIV and the upstart AIDS Niagara. I was a bit of […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 28, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: Uncategorized ACT AIDS support HIV/AIDS Source Type: blogs
Letter to The Star Re: When free speech becomes hate crime (Letters, June 23)
From among the throngs walking past, largely ignoring him, a street preacher standing with a mic and an amplifier in front of Old City Hall called me out leaving the opening ceremonies of World Pride taking place at Nathan Phillips Square last Friday. Punching his words from between what he considered to be biblical condemnations […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 27, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: Uncategorized Christianity HIV/AIDS homosexuality World Pride Toronto 2014 Source Type: blogs
A new low
“How long have you been wasting?” the chiropodist asked me a couple of weeks ago as she updated a history on me. The starkness of the verb, however accurate, stayed with me. I’ve always been thin, I said, but my weight has been falling a bit since last fall. Fast forward to preparations for a […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - June 13, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: AIDS and HIV autobiography medical update unwanted weight loss Source Type: blogs
Another change to “Mr. G’s eye exam”
Mr. G’s eye exam has been changed yet again so that the antagonist, though dead for more than a decade, might only be identified by his last initial and the responsibilities he held – not by full name nor school. I’m doing this following some brief correspondence from a classmate who wondered, without suggesting anything […] (Source: My journey with AIDS)
Source: My journey with AIDS - May 4, 2014 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: autobiography Childhood trauma family youth Source Type: blogs
Bottling works and Code Mill from near Haggart Dam
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Source: My journey with AIDS - October 23, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Foggy weekend morning
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Source: My journey with AIDS - October 23, 2013 Category: HIV AIDS Authors: Kenn Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
