Marilyn+Marrero

List of possible topics;

1* Trip to niagara falls 2* Diabetes 3* Exhaust Footwear 4* Reminiscences in color(description of an old picture) 5* workplace violence 6*Guernica( piece of art) 7* wonders of nature 8* Morro castle( in puerto Rico) 9* the miracle of life(car accident) 10*My firt visit to Doimican Repulic

Coming into language

It was at the beginning like most things in life, bland, blunt and dull. In the early stages of life I was slowly coming from under the sea and emerging to the world of knowledge. The learning process was difficult until I discovered the world of reading. It eventually uncovered the veil off my eyes and open the wings of knowledge. As the time passed by, life took unexpected turns .I was confronting a new challenge in life learning a new and unknown language. It was like breaking through ice, but I pulled it through. I can say that in the oceans of diversity and winds of the storm I did survive. Finally, those words that I considered graffiti in the beginning, help me find a passage to remote areas, times and places that I never thought existed. It was as if was reborn. Different from early stages of knowledge in life, learning a new language was like a day after the storm. Consequently the evolution from that was a beautiful rainbow of happiness and joy, success and prosperity in life. Off course we never stop learning ,no matter how old you are.

MY DEFEAT POSITION

The fact that I was earning some money to survive and THAT I WAS WITH A LOT OF OLD FRIENDS, WERE THE ONLY TWO THINGS THAT HELD ME THERE. BEING AN ASSEMBLER IN A MEDICAL EQUIPMENT COMPANY WAS REALLY NOT THE JOB FOR ME. THE WORKING CONDITIONS WERE HORRIBLE.YOU WHERE REQUIRED TO BE ON YOUR FEET FOR A MINIMUM OF NINE HOURS A DAY FOR SIX DAYS A WEEK. YOU ONLY HAD THE OPORTUNITY TO SIT, ONCE A WEEK FOR A COUPLE HOURS, WHEN THE EMPLOYES WHERE REQIRED TO INSPECT MANUALLY EVERY INSTRUMENT THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE ADDED TO THE PARTICULAR ORDER FOR THAT WEEK. CONTINIOUSLY YOU HAD TO WORK IN A VERY HIGH TENSED SPEED ENVIRONMENT. AT THE SAME TIME YOU HAD TO BE VERY ALERT TO OBTAIN AN ERROR FREE FINISHED PRODUCT.

ALSO YOUR POSITION ROTATED DURING THE DAY IN THE MORNING YOU ASSEMBLED THOSE SURGICAL KITS AND IN THE AFTERNOON YOU WERE REQURED TO SEAL, PACK AND LIFT THOSE KITS. THOSE KITS WERE BETWEEN THE RANGES OF A MINIMUM 15 POUNDS AND A MAXIMIM 50 POUNDS. ANOTHER SITUATION THAT IT WAS MAKING IT DIFFICULT WAS THE PAY RATE, IT WAS ONLY SIX DOLLARS AN HOUR, AND SATURDAYS WAS MANDATORY TO WORK. THERE WAS NO CHOICE, EITHER WORK OR GET FIRED, AND AT THAT TIME I NEEDED THE MONEY. AT THE END IT WAS PHISICALLY EXTREME SOMETIMES, BUT THE SATISFACTION THAT I COULD BRING FOOD TO THE TABLE INDEED WAS PRICELESS.

Exhaust Footwear

Due to the cause of the amazing rhythm of today’s world, where life is very agitated and complicated on a daily routine, more and more people are looking for the comfort and commodity that a good pair of shoes could offer. However no matter the type of duty you perform, you could look for the ones that better accommodate your needs, but remember this is going to be your best friend or your worst enemy and could complicate your stressed life style more.

My personal experience with this particular matter is a little expansive, working on your feet on a daily routine, teaches you that a pair of shoes has to be comfortable in order to get you through your daily routine without suffer. For some people, the beauty and the cost are primarily, other than the comfort ability, but in my case the commodity and the cost go together hand by hand. Finding myself at one time, but not too long ago, with the need of a new pair of shoes, I took a task of looking for a good pair of nursing shoes. These fancy free, foothold that I was looking for has to meet certain requirements, first they have to be colorless, not too pricey, but not too cheap and in size seven and a half, preferable medium width. I did window-shopping, for a period of tome looking for the ones to fulfill my needs.

I went to a store called Alexander’s uniform, and “Bingo”, I found my shoes, but only one problem they were too expensive, one hundred-sixty five dollars?. This shoes were in a rectangular shape, all white smooth leather, and the inside have a poron air pillow cushion, which has the ability to massage my foot while I am walking and, keep the air inside of the shoe flowing avoiding sweat and consequently bad smell.

The front portion of this shoe is in one piece and goes up to the upper part of my foot. The back portion goes around my ankle toward the front and joins at the top portion with an elastic band, and under the front portion sealing in place my foot. The sole has a declination, from back to front, tree to one inch and they are sturdy but not hollow, and goes out one eight of inch of the front end of the shoe. The bottom of the sole is rugged and lumpy which offers a very good grip in difficult situations.

After, a couple of years looking at my shoes they still have the same elegance from the first day when they conquer me, through the window of the store, but they do not have the same demeanor anymore, They look tire, because we have been walking for approximately, five miles together, for five days a week times thirty-six months. They have a slightly worn appearance. They do not have bad smell, the smooth leather that it was, now is a little worn in the front due to all the bending, and some few scratches on the front portion due to all the time that you have to run without notice what you have in front. At the end back of the sole the time add a new slanted area, but they still have the same good grip on any surface. We been good friends in this daily battle, I carry them and they support me.

In the end, if my shoes look tired when I took them off, picture the person who wears them all day and all night. Currently they are looking forward to rest in peace and be replaced with a new version of them.

Cultural Experience

My first visit to the Dominican Republic, three years ago, was more than an adventure it was an amazing experience. I leaned alot from their culture and their ways of surviving on daily bases. Shockingly, something really threw me off. It was the behavior of the men towards their wives. For the first time I witnessed something that I thought didn’t happened anymore. When I visited my brother in law and his family, I noticed that the women of the house did not sit down with the guest to have a conversation. Their Children were not even allowed to come and say hi without their father’s approval. They invited us to stay for dinner. When the dinner was served, the wife was playing the roll of the maid. It was all orders and complaints about the Dinner. It was extremely demeaning.

The husband runs the house like a military camp. I know for a fact that this is not a poor family and they’re not illiterate people. They are very well educated, she is a registered nurse and he is a politician in the region where they live. When I asked her why she doesn’t sit with us, she answered ,that her husband does not allow her to be in the living room when they have guest. He has made very clear to that her place is in the kitchen, sadly but truly a forty‘s mentality. I advised her to talk to him and together find a away for him to change his pre- historic view of the woman’s place in the house. She deserves to be treated equally and with dignity. I believe that he is a very arrogant, insecure and in the end is everything about control.

As a Puerto Rican woman living for more than twenty years in the United States, I’ve never seen this behavior before. I’ve been having the pleasure to share in many different occasions with people from different backgrounds and ethnicities. I was always fascinated by the way in which these people get along and share with me. Some with more than others, but always with one thing in common mutual respect.

In this country no matter who you are or what you have, when somebody visits you, everyone in the house comes say hi and sit with the guest. Also it is very typical of the Puerto Rican family that when you receive guest; we all sit down and chit-chat until one in the morning.

In conclusion, I believe in the unity of family. If women due to their culture believe that by being humiliated like that, is the way to keep unity in their family, cruel but then let them be.

How to plant a garden

In order to create and add beauty in the curb appeal or the back yard of your home, you need to first study the area in where you want the garden to be. To make a good study of the area you need to identify the amount of sun exposure that this particular area has, or the amount of shade at certain times of the day. Next you needed to identify the amount of pollution, for example if the muffler of your car blows in that direction every morning. Make a design of what you have in mind for this project, take measurements to be able to determine the amount, and shape, of bricks or stones, and the amount of plants that are going to be needed. Second, to determine what type of tools you need for this project dig up the area you choose for your garden and remove any kind of junk that could be stuck in the soil. Third, buy taking in consideration the soil, decide what kind of water system is going to work better for your garden, like for example he old fashion way; is with the hose by hand daily, or a simple water sprinkler, or a more advanced time sprinkler to keep your garden more beautiful with less time consuming.

After the above steps are completed, you can focus on the two main parts which are choosing your plants and the kind of fertilizer needed to keep them beautiful. In the end after all the work is done, grab a chair, sit down ,relax, and enjoy the pleasure of seeing your flowers blooming and filling your life with a delicate aroma.

Process for a technician to obtain blood samples

In order to obtain a blood sample a technician needs to follow certain rules, and guidelines from the facility that they work. For safety reasons universal precautions need to follow, meaning that every sample needs to be treated as a potential hazard.

To begin, every patient, needs to be identified by stating their name, social security number, and date of birth. Consequently this information needs to be reassured by the person reading the labels, so that at the end it will be placed on collection tube. Second, gently grab the person’s arm and place it on the arm of the chair, tie tourniquet around middle upper arm, making sure that two of your fingers can fit between tourniquet and the person’s Skin, then start to palpate with your index finger any area that became prominent in the forearm. It has to feel spongy and bouncy, not hard and also have to look prominent .so when you insert the needle it doesn’t burst causing a hematoma. If the person has delicate skin ,and you see their veins very shallow, do not attempt to insert the needle, because as soon as you pinch that vein it will burst.

After this part of the procedure is done, use a gauze saturated in alcohol and rub the desired area gently, let it dry for a few seconds ,Do not blow it, air dry is best in the process to disinfect the area. Next grab the needle in a forty five degree angle and insert in the Person’s vein, following this insert the collection tube in the tube holder, and as the vacuum of the tube expires, gently remove the tube and reinsert another one if necessary, to obtain as many samples needle. Next ,with a clean gauze in hand, remove the tourniquet, remove the needle and apply pressure where the needle was to stop the bleeding, cap needle and place it in the sharp container. To end this procedure apply a band aid, or if skin is too delicate rap the area around with a strap of gauze and a piece of tape on top, or simply apply a piece of gauze in a roll and a piece or paper tape.

Just remember that this procedure should not take longer than two to tree minutes, also take in consideration that if the flow of the blood is very slow you might have to stick the person again, due to the specimen may coagulate before you finish collecting it, and That the tourniquet can not stay on for no more than one minute.

Taking a handful when you can

Living with family members while attending to college has a lot of advantages but some disadvantages too. First of the advantages is not having to cook. I can relay in coming home tired to a warm plate of food. Another advantage is, being able to come home without having to worry about doing dishes or cleaning, everything is done by the time I get home. Since everything is done I have more time to study and focused on my classes. Also I do not have to worry about paying any type of bills such as rent or electric they are all take care of for me. For me living with very loving family members is a free ride except for some disadvantages to live with them, such as, they can be really stressful. As your relatives they want to now what you are doing and also you have to abide their rules, because if not your free ride is over. take the advantage while you can it is a once in a life time opportunity.

My Lodestar

I have a hero that doesn’t belong to a cartoon story, but to a real life one. In my encounter with life, I found a very amazing person who does not let the adversity of the world conquer him. On the contrary, he beats the adversity by proving on a daily bases that if you want you can. This amazing person is my dearly beloved father, who the sense of being afraid never crosses his mind.

This amazing person, has thought me a lot. First, when he was a little boy, he suffered a very rare disease, today eradicated, called polio. It eventually caused him muscular dystrophy. But that did not stop him, he used to play baseball and work in the field like any other kid in his time. At the age of seven he learned how to play string instruments, like a guitar and a fourth. The only things he did not learn were how toread and write.

At the age of nineteen, he move to the city with relatives, made new friends and learned how to survive without his parents. Consequently he went to a vocational school, where he learned how to fix cars. Due to the good people that he encountered in his life and everything that he learned, he opened his own business,a auto shop. He was an example in his community, and very well respected too.

At the age of twenty five, with all his physical disabilities he was able to find his other half, who up to today’s date fills his days with happiness. They got married, and procreated nine children. Today this dignified gentlemen, does not work anymore, he is seventy five yeas old, and other than his physical disability god has blessed him with very good health. Sadly but truly as far as I can remember, he used to stand on one leg and grabbed the other one to move. Eventually he used a cane, then unfortunately he started to drag himself to places to meet his needs, but today he is confined to a motorized wheel chair, but nothing will ever stop him.

This character from the real life, taught me a lot about life, especially how unfair this world can be. At a very late stage in life he learned how to read and write. I am very proud of him especially for his bravery and his love for life.

Human Immunodeficiency Virus ( HIV )

1 * what is HIV and the myth A) what is this disease

B) Causes and effect

C) what affect

D) only homosexuals and lesbians disease

E) who is more affected

2 *origin and first cases A) came from Africa

B) discover in the 1980’s

C) similar to SIV in animals

D) is a lentivirus

E)OPV theory

F) OPV theory

G) Hunter theory

I) what causes sudden spread

3 *today who is affected

A) gay’s and lesbian’s B) drug users

C) unborn child D) pregnant women

E) elderly

G) rest of population

4 * compare with other deadly disease in the world

A) influenza

B) polio C) tuberculosis D) yellow fever F)hepatitis A,B,C

G) leper or leprosy( Hansen’s disease )

5 * statistics

A) USA B) World Wide

6 * New Treatment and research

A) new and old medication

B) treatment therapy C) nutritional alternative

7 * cost of treatment

A) medication

B) with or without insurance C) monthly and yearly

8 * quality of life

A) acceptance B) expectancy C) support of family D)quality versus quantity for the family members

9 * what to do to eliminate the pandemic

A) think??? B) use protection C)use and dispose single use needles

Marilyn Marrero DR. Nancy Noonan English1005-301 19 November 2010

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

As far as the world goes, unfortunately the poverty level and the abundance wrong spreader in this world have created on of the seven plagues that according to the history is going to destroy the human race. The human race was bad but the misfortune is worst, when the virus called HIV erupt in the face of the earth. But the truly and unfortunate reality is that this transparent, odorless and tasteless, insignificant bacteria is Ripping apart our community, our families and our piece of mind as well. This microscopic virus can only infect human beings. It weakens your immune system and destroys important cells that help fight against diseases and infections. Also it can only reproduce itself by taking over a cell in the human body. In the early discover time of this disease, it was to believe that the virus only pertained to promiscuous people or homosexuals, and lesbians but was not true at all. This disease pertains too to who share needles, commonly known as drug users and people who have received any kind of blood product, due to the lack of technology in the previous years, it was impossible to know if the blood was totally clean of disease or not. Currently it is a big number of the population who is infected. There is no specific age or social class, or even a prefer sector of the community, unfortunately today’s date people are born with this disease without

knowing it. According to the researchers the origin of this pandemic came to light in the early 1980’s, in the USA and Haiti. The first recognized case was discovered in the USA. Due to a number of gay men in New York and California started to develop infections unknown by physicians. The disease did not have a name yet but it was obvious that those men where having a common syndrome. But the golden question for the researchers was where this virus came from exactly?, what causes this? And the answer came to light. Years of studies reveal that, the cross over to humans is believed that happened in Africa by the butchering and, consumption of infected monkey ( sooty mangabeys) meat .this lentivirus is believe to affecting monkeys since 32,000 years ago. this particular animals where infected with SIV witch is likely the same virus to HIV but it is significantly less infectious and progress more slowly than HIV and AIDS in humans. In the later half of the twentieth century a big number of factors have contribute to the spread of the virus like, national and international travel play the biggest role in. another factor, the young gay men revolution in the late 1970’s early 1980’s certainly play a large part in taking the virus world wide. But the process of transmission in this unfortunate global pandemic is simply too complex to blame to blame a specific group or individual. Up to this year, I consider that we as human beings are all affected by this disease in one way or another., may be not closely but you might know somebody who has this disease. Some more unfortunate, that without knowing it came to this world just because, and they came to suffer twice for other peoples irresponsibility. Also the pregnant wife of that ignorant man who got infected and did not knew until it was to late. But saddest is

the elderly population. Those tiered and exhausted bones, who in their times there were not taught how to talk about sex and prevention. The elderly population often mistakes symptoms of the disease for the aches and pain of the normal aging, so they are less likely to get tested. In the 20th century several epidemics cause millions of deaths, one more devastating than others but still make number in the world history. Approximately half of all deaths cause by infectious disease each year can be attribute to just three diseases : tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS. Together, these diseases cause over 300 million illnesses and more than 5 million deaths every year. Another diseases that caught a lot of media attention where, Spanish influenza outbreak in 1918 that killed more than500,000 of people. Next Yellow fever, who causes an estimate of30,000 deaths every year out of 2000,000 cases. Consequently leprosy, that has affect humanity for 4,000 and has killed millions and millions of people around the world. fortunately for some of this diseases, there is a vaccine and for others if is detected early a cure. But that is not the case for the HIV, who unfortunately is trying to extinguish us. The statistics reveal that, the united states and the 5 U.S. dependent areas according to the center for the disease control and prevention (CDC) estimates that by the end of 2007, there were 599,819 people living and are diagnosed with HIV. However the total number of people living with an HIV infection is thought to be 1.1 million.

During 2008, there was an estimate of 42,439 new diagnoses with HIV infection. Since 2000, the annual number of new cases diagnoses have been relatively constant, with an estimate of 37,991 in 2008. Sadly in total, 1,077,972 people have been diagnosed with AIDS in north America since the beginning of the epidemic. The ethnic group most in infected in 2007 were the black/ African American and almost two thirds of adults infected with HIV was through male to male sexual contact. Unfortunately the quantity of deaths has establish a number in the recent past years at around 17,000 -18,000 people per year, but may be due to any other complication that being infected brought to each individual in separate cases. Several types of drugs are use to treat HIV infection, they are being called antiretroviral drugs. What this drugs do block the activity of one of the enzymes that HIV needs to replicate inside of the human body. Some of this drugs are ,first, reverse transcriptase inhibitors, those prevent s HIV to become DNA. Secondly, protease inhibitors, those prevent from activating certain proteins inside newly viruses. Next fusion inhibitors, one type is Ccr-5 these receptors prevent HIV form entering human body cells. Also the integrase inhibitors, the ones who prevent HIV DNA form being integrated in to human DNA. But, is good to remember that the HIV invariability develop resistance to any of these drugs when they are used alone. The drug treatment regimen is beneficial only if the drugs are taking on schedule. Missed doses allow the virus to replicate and develop resistance.

Sadly but truly, no treatment can eliminate the virus from the body, although, they are some new medication still in research, like a potentially vaccine who is to be the promise to cure the virus, others claim that two cancer medication can successfully stop HIV, or the most latest in the Absence of a cure of this world wide pandemic, people start to believe that vitamins can reverse even severe symptoms of the infectious disease. But as a consequence of all this, is the suffering of the pocket for those who can and those who can not afford this treatment. This treatment is outrageously expensive due to the fact that this is a very difficult and complicated disease. Yearly this treatment cost618,900, broken down to 2,100 a month and this is for life and, if the disease progress is going to be off course more expensive. Also, infected people taking this medications in a daily bases can buy 10 to 20 extra years of life. Last but not least, I consider that this epidemic can be controlled like any other epidemic that the world and it’s population have experienced in the past. I believe that one day those researchers would create for the world, a vaccine or a new medication powerful enough that can prevent the spread of this disease or confined to a minimum in the world. But in the waiting and hope for all that, we as human beings can use strategies to prevent the transmission of HIV in such way that others hopefully should followed soon. Like for example abstaining from sexual activity, or take as a habit to use latex condoms( infected or not your partner), also if are engaged in oral sex, please, withdraw before ejaculation, do not let that moment take the rest of your life.

Also get tested, with a simple blood test to detect any kind of STDs before having or engaging in unprotected sex. It is crucial to save life’s of innocents specially if you plan to get pregnant. Do not share needles or syringes, and, wear latex gloves in good condition any time that any kind of body fluid is involve. If an accident accrued involving a needle stick or you became contaminated with any kind of bodily fluid infected or not, seek medical attention immediately to get treated with antiretroviral drugs. It is time to begin, we can not afford to wait and continue loosing innocent lives. In summary; live is only one and very precious, fill your biggest cup with all the delights of the world, but take care in the best way possible

Marilyn Marrero DR. Nancy Noonan English1005-301 3 December 2010

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

As far as the world goes, unfortunately the poverty level and the abundance wrong spreader in this world have created on of the seven plagues that according to history is going to destroy the human race. The human race was bad but the misfortune is worst, when the virus called HIV erupted on the face of the earth. But the truly and unfortunate reality is that this transparent, odorless and tasteless, insignificant virus is Ripping apart our community, our families and our piece of mind. This microscopic virus can only infect human beings. It weakens your immune system and destroys important cells that help fight against diseases and infections. Also it can only reproduce itself by taking over a cell in the human body. In the early discovery of this disease, it was assumed that the virus only pertained to promiscuous people or homosexuals, and lesbians but was not true at all. This disease pertains too to who share needles, commonly known as drug users and people who have received any kind of blood product, due to the lack of technology in the previous years, it was impossible to know if the blood was totally clean of disease or not. Currently it is a big number of the population who is infected. There is no specific age or social class, or even a preferred sector of the community, unfortunately today people are born with this disease without

knowing it. According to the researchers the origin of this pandemic came to light in the early 1980’s, in the USA and Haiti. The first recognized case was discovered in the USA, due to a number of gay men in New York and California developing infections unknown by physicians. The disease did not have a name yet but it was obvious that those men where having a common syndrome. The golden questions for the researchers were where exactly did this virus came from? And what causes this?. Years of studies revealed that the cross over to humans is believed to have happened in Africa by the butchering, and consumption , of infected monkey ( sooty mangabeys) meat .the lentivirus is believed to be affecting monkeys for 32,000 years. this particular animals where infected with SIV witch is likely the same virus as HIV but it is significantly less infectious and progresses slower than HIV and AIDS in humans. In the later half of the twentieth century a big number of factors have contributed to the spread of the virus such as, national and international travel, and the young gay men revolution in the late 1970’s early 1980’s certainly played a large part in taking the virus world wide. The process of transmission in this unfortunate global pandemic is simply too complex to blame on a specific group or individual. Up to this year, I consider that we as human beings are all affected by this disease in one way or another., may be not closely but you might know somebody who has this disease. Some are unfortunate like the pregnant wife or girlfriend of that ignorant fool and those that without knowing it came in to this world to suffer the consequences for other people’s mistake. The saddest is

the elderly population, Those tiered and exhausted bones, who in their time were not taught how to talk about sex and prevention. The elderly population often mistakes symptoms of the disease for the aches and pain of normal aging, so they are less likely to get tested. In the 20th century several epidemics cause millions of deaths, some more devastating than others, but still left their mark in world’s history. Approximately half of all deaths caused by infectious diseases each year can be attribute to just three diseases : tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS. Together, these diseases caused over 300 million illnesses and more than 5 million deaths every year. Other diseases that caught a lot of media attention were, the Spanish influenza outbreak in 1918, that killed more than500,000 people. Yellow fever, who causes an estimate of30,000 deaths every year out of 2,000,000 cases. Leprosy, that has affected humanity for 4,000 years and has killed millions and millions of people around the world. fortunately for some of this diseases, there is a vaccine. That is not the case for the HIV, who unfortunately is trying to extinguish us. Statistics reveal that the united states, and the 5 U.S. dependent areas, according to the Center for the Disease Control and prevention (CDC) estimates that by the end of 2007, there were 599,819 people living and are diagnosed with HIV. However the total number of people living with an HIV infection is thought to be 1.1 million.

During 2008, there was an estimate of 42,439 new diagnoses with HIV infection. Since 2000, the annual number of new cases diagnosed have been relatively constant, with an estimate of 37,991 in 2008. Sadly in total, 1,077,972 people have been diagnosed with AIDS in north America since the beginning of the epidemic. The ethnic group most infected in 2007 were the black/ African American and almost two thirds of adults infected with HIV was through male to male sexual contact. Unfortunately the quantity of deaths has establish a number in the recent past years at around 17,000 -18,000 people per year, but may be due to any other complication that being infected brought to each individual in separate cases. Several types of drugs are use to treat HIV infection, they are called antiretroviral drugs. What this drugs do is block the activity of one of the enzymes that HIV needs to replicate inside of the human body. Some of this drugs are reverse transcriptase inhibitors, those prevent HIV to become DNA. Secondly, protease inhibitors, those prevent from activating certain proteins inside newly viruses. Next fusion inhibitors, one type is Ccr-5 these receptors prevent HIV form entering human body cells. Also the integrase inhibitors, the ones who prevent HIV DNA form being integrated in to human DNA. But, it’s important to remember that the HIV invariability develop resistance to any of these drugs when they are used alone. The drug treatment regimen is beneficial only if the drugs are taking on schedule. Missed doses allow the virus to replicate and develop resistance.

Sadly but truly, no treatment can eliminate the virus from the body, although, there are some new medication still in research, like a potential vaccine which is to be the promise to cure the virus, others claim that two cancer medication can successfully stop HIV, or the most latest in the Absence of a cure of this world wide pandemic, people start to believe that vitamins can reverse even severe symptoms of the infectious disease. But a consequence of all this is the suffering of the pocket for those who can and those who can not afford this treatment. This treatment is outrageously expensive due to the fact that this is a very difficult and complicated disease. Yearly this treatment cost618,900, broken down to 2,100 a month and this is for life and, if the disease progress is going to be off course more expensive. Also, infected people taking this medications in a daily bases can buy 10 to 20 extra years of life. Last but not least, I consider that this epidemic can be controlled like any other epidemic that the world and it’s population have experienced in the past. I believe that one day those researchers will create for the world, a vaccine or a new medication powerful enough that can prevent the spread of this disease or confined to a minimum in the world. But in the waiting and hope for all that, we as human beings can use strategies to prevent the transmission of HIV in such way that others hopefully should follow soon. Like for example abstaining from sexual activity, or take as a habit to use latex condoms( infected or not your partner), also if engaged in oral sex, please, withdraw before ejaculation, do not let that moment take the rest of your life.

Also get tested, with a simple blood test to detect any kind of STDs before having or engaging in unprotected sex. It is crucial to save life’s of innocents specially if you plan to get pregnant. Do not share needles or syringes, and, wear latex gloves in good condition any time that any kind of body fluid is involved. If an accident accrurs involving a needle stick or you became contaminated with any kind of bodily fluid infected or not, seek medical attention immediately to get treated with antiretroviral drugs. It is time to begin, we can not afford to wait and continue loosing innocent lives. In coclusion; life is only one and very precious, fill your biggest cup with all the delights of the world, but take care in the best way possible.

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My story is probably going to sound unreal; but it is very real, and was so stressful that I could not slept for one month. From that point in time I started to believe I have a guardian angel watching me. I guess it was not my time to go. It was about twelve years ago; In 1998 during a mid summer rainy afternoon, my ex- husband and I where involved in a motor vehicle accident to be specific on route 395 north in new London Connecticut. we went out for dinner with friends, and as usual he drank more that he could handle. We argued ,due to the fact he wanted to drive and I did not agree with that. I was only thinking that if he speed I was going to get in trouble, due to the fact that the car was registered under my name. But, something worse happened. He decided to pass an eighteen wheeler truck on the right lane because of the rain the truck was making it difficult for us to see the road. Due to his drunk status he did not notice that we where in the blind spot of this ferocious iron animal. I was just telling him that he needed to speed up and pass to be in a safer zone. We did not finish passing when the truck hit us on the rear of the drivers side, the impact rotated the vehicle and the car was litterally stuck to the nose of this monster like flies on a fan. He then dragged us about two hundred feet. We then heard such a horrifying sound, it was like thunder. It then started to smell like burnt rubber, all of a sudden you heard the trucks tires screetching against the pavement. As the truck tried to stop and as the other cars on the highway came to a hault, our car swayed from one side of the highway to the next. Until we finally came to a hault thanks to the metal barrier on the edge of the highway. The truck lost control and ended up stuck at the edge of the woods that was on the opposite side of the highway. In what felt like seconds a rescue team was helping me and my ex- husband out of our car. Thanks to god no one was injured except for my car which was a total loss. Since then I do not aloud anybody to drive any vehicle who is register under my name no matter the circumstances.