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- From: cherokee@cscns.com (Kangi Taku Wakan)
- Subject: Today I Mourn
- Message-ID: <By056J.ECy@cscns.com>
- Organization: Community_News_Service
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:39:54 GMT
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- By the standards of the people for whom this group is named, I guess I am
- just a "het-boy", though (at least I think) not a stupid one. Today I mourn.
-
- A friend of mine, whom I have grown very fond of in the past few weeks,
- told me today that he is HIV-positive. My friend happens to be gay, a
- fact that I was not entirely sure of until today. This fact does not
- change the fact that he is one of my best friends; but the fact that he
- has been HIV+ for 7 years makes me think that my friend will not walk
- among the living much longer. He is very frail but in decent health, I
- suppose, considering his situation. He says he has been kept alive by the
- herbal potions of the holy men of his tribe, the Karuk of California. All
- AZT did was make him violently ill.
-
- Perhaps he has become accustomed to the idea of living with HIV, but I,
- who have never to my knowledge known anyone with this affliction, feel as
- if someone who is my friend may soon leave the earth before it is his
- time. This saddens me so deeply I have sought out this newsgroup, to ask
- anyone out there who been through the loss of a friend or a loved one to
- AIDS: How does one prepare one's self for the loss of one so valued?
-
- If anyone out there can give me an answer, please do. I feel lost.
-
- Kangi Taku Wakan
- (Medicine Crow)
- cherokee@cscns.com
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