Being Positive: Part 1
On September 3rd, 2020 I went to a local hospital’s ER, as I spent the last week with COVID-19 like symptoms as well as vomiting everything I had ingested for a week’s time. Upon being admitted to the ER routine covid, blood, and urine tests were taken, and after several of hours of vomiting and sitting in an ER room alone a doctor finally came in around 9:30p. He told me that my covid tests were negative, but then he asked if I was aware of my positive status. I told him no and asked him what I was positive for, because I was quite puzzled with what he meant by positive status. He quickly looked down and that’s when he said, “Your HIV positive status.”