What Are You Thinking About?

**dr. d** · August 27th, 2018 05:00 PM

Originally Posted by Archerfish

This is sad... YOLO, you only live once. Some people I've known really live like that. If I may say, a life without a "purpose". They are living for the sake of living, with all the pleasures of life can offer. A life without meaningful purpose.

On some extreme cases of YOLO, the latest statistics I've seen infected with HIV is 13 years old. And according to my friend who is a medical practitioner, the youngest patient he had with STD is 9 years old!

my infections disease authority has this saying, "only the newborn can be considered 100% virgin."
and yet, the poor guy can already be infected via "vertical means" from the mother.

magic johnson (remember him?) is still alive and physically healthy, after 2 decades of hiv. but, i believe, he's on anti-hiv medications.
while modern medicine already has the ability to stop hiv from killing, we as yet have not found a real cure.

**Jun aka Pekto** · August 27th, 2018 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by dr. d

there is even a "curse" about prunes.
"may your army of starving soldiers be rained by unlimited, delicious prunes, and have only one latrine available."

So, the laxative part is true.

Next time I'm constipated, I'll eat some prunes. I find them delicious. But, I'll make sure to never eat prunes while on a road trip.

**dr. d** · August 27th, 2018 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

So, the laxative part is true.

Next time I'm constipated, I'll eat some prunes. I find them delicious. But, I'll make sure to never eat prunes while on a road trip.

yes, sir! many folks use them as a non-medicinal laxative. some kids like 'em.
i eat them when i am sure i'm not going anywhere far from a good comfort room, in the next 24 hours, with unlimited water and tissue paper.
yes, they are delicious.

**ray_noel** · August 27th, 2018 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Archerfish

This is sad... YOLO, you only live once. Some people I've known really live like that. If I may say, a life without a "purpose". They are living for the sake of living, with all the pleasures of life can offer. A life without meaningful purpose.

On some extreme cases of YOLO, the latest statistics I've seen infected with HIV is 13 years old. And according to my friend who is a medical practitioner, the youngest patient he had with STD is 9 years old!

Is this in PH? If yes, very alarming... Pia Wurtz kinakompanya ang AIDS awareness which is good....

**StockEngine** · August 27th, 2018 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by ray_noel

Is this in PH? If yes, very alarming... Pia Wurtz kinakompanya ang AIDS awareness which is good....

We are in the watchlist of growing number of HIV cases.

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**Jun aka Pekto** · August 27th, 2018 06:25 PM

Originally Posted by dr. d

yes, sir! many folks use them as a non-medicinal laxative. some kids like 'em.
i eat them when i am sure i'm not going anywhere far from a good comfort room, in the next 24 hours, with unlimited water and tissue paper.
yes, they are delicious.

My wife is awake and watching TV. Apparently, she ate some prunes too.

We finished a big bagful between the two of us.

Oh. I just had my 4th trip.

**dr. d** · August 27th, 2018 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by StockEngine

We are in the watchlist of growing number of HIV cases.

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a colleague says, the numbers have always been with us.
but because we (or rather, the afflicted ones) treat it like top secret and like the spanish influenza of 1918, they simply simply shut up and are not counted.
they seek professional help only when it starts getting "in their way of a normal life"... which is not yesterday or last year, but "now". hence the increase.
if we are to control and beat this disease, we have to rid ourselves of the fears borne out of our inventive minds.

**dr. d** · August 27th, 2018 07:26 PM

Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto

My wife is awake and watching TV. Apparently, she ate some prunes too.

We finished a big bagful between the two of us.

Oh. I just had my 4th trip.

like many american homes, i believe yours has more than one bathroom.
heh heh.

but see this,
there is an "advantage". after your bouts, you will feel "cleansed".

**StockEngine** · August 27th, 2018 07:35 PM

Originally Posted by dr. d

a colleague says, the numbers have always been with us.
but because we (or rather, the afflicted ones) treat it like top secret and like the spanish influenza of 1918, they simply simply shut up and are not counted.
they seek professional help only when it starts getting "in their way of a normal life".
if we are to control and beat this disease, we have to rid ourselves of the fears borne out of our inventive minds.

Awareness is the issue. Poor or not these younger generation of imbeciles are not informed about fluid exposure.

DoE and DoH has to step up..

I'm wrong by the way.. it's not simply growing.. its exponentially growing...

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**dr. d** · August 27th, 2018 07:41 PM

Originally Posted by StockEngine

Awareness is the issue. Poor or not these younger generation of imbeciles are not informed about fluid exposure.

DoE and DoH has to step up..

I'm wrong by the way.. it's not simply growing.. its exponentially growing...

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it is probably partly the health practitioner's fault.
while we in the profession know the etiopathogenesis and infections nature of the disease,
we sometimes think everybody else does.
which is simply not so.

to wit,
if it is as fatal and infectious as we feel, then why do we not advertise openly, of this disease?
then advertise where they can get free help, no questions asked.
when i open my TV set tonight, will i see even one such medical ad?