Finding out you were positive!

Hello adrianspike, welcome to mylot! Hope you enjoy your time here:) Well I have someone very dear to me who just found out the beginning of this year that they have HIV. I think even now it still feels impossible to be true but I'm slowly accepting it. When I first found out, it was the hardest thing for me. My kids and I usually visit this person a couple times a week because we're so close and it's such an exciting time every time we go visit him. I would cry every time we'd drive down to his house because I felt like everytime I would see him could be my last and I wanted to make every moment spent with him special. In the back of my mind I knew he wasn't gonna leave us that soon but I still felt such sadness. As a little bit of time went by I started to feel better and know that he's not gonna leave us because people with HIV/Aids live for years and years. I would like for all of us in the family to go to some kind of classes or counseling together to all support him more but some of us have been there to support him in our own way such as talking with him about it, letting him know we still love him the same and not treating him any differently. I think the main key for people who know someone close to them who has this is to learn more about what it is. Because alot of people freak out over the smallest things after that when they know someone has it. They don't want to touch them anymore, go to the restroom after the person, or eat around them. I feel very sorry for people who think that way because they have no idea what they do to that person when they act like that and they really do have alot to learn. I try and will keep doing my best to treat this person the same and always support him in every way I can:)