In this week’s blog, I’d like to say that I enjoyed my time off last Friday and I felt free not having anything restricting me from enjoying my day. Three weeks has passed by since I was tested for HIV and on November 3rd I will be getting my results in which I am looking forward to. I am not scared one bit because I am confident that it will come out negative. This week we were given our QOTW #9 and I kind of had to think about this question for a little before immediately answering it. I feel that the parents of the child who got bit should be informed of my child’s condition because it is the right thing to do. How would you feel if were the parents of the other child and you weren’t told that the child who bit your child was HIV positive? The consequences though of telling these parents are that they might want to retaliate towards my child’s actions and press for a lawsuit or spread the news around to other parents.
This semester is coming to an end and I’d have greatly appreciated all the things that I have learned from this class, especially watching the movies, and I will always value them. I can just remember when this semester first started and had to those first two assignments on thrush and PCP and remembered thinking that this class would be interesting. I never thought this class would challenge me in so many ways but I am happy it did because I’ve learned so much and has made me a better student.
Did you know?.......
According to a survey released Chicago detainees from Children and teens in the U.S. juvenile system are reported of high rates of behaviors that put them at risk of HIV/AIDS (The Body, 2003). Mostly all reported that they had at one point put themselves at high risk of getting HIV through unprotected sex and getting tattoos with potentially dirty needles (The Body, 2003). Dr. Linda A. Teplin, a legal health expert at Northwestern University, says that these students “may be too busy skipping school to learn about HIV, and they don't have much parental support in their lives” and that their best chance of being educated is in prison (The Body, 2003). To help fix this problem, she suggests that corrections officials to do more to prevent the spread of HIV but the specifics as to what they could do was not specified though it could be assumed that educating these juveniles would be the best solution (The Body, 2003).
The Body. (May, 30, 2003). Retrieved October 28, 2009, from http://www.thebody.com/content/whatis/art27932.html
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Ha! Ha! I enjoyed my time off too. It was my moms' birthday weekend.
ReplyDeleteI completely said the same thing on this QOTW. It's just the right thing to do to inform the other parent of my kids HIV status. They should know that.
This semester is comming to an end, but it is not over yet! :)
It's really sad that such young people are putting their health in all kinds of risk. Just like you stated that the kids are too busy skipping school to learn about prevention methods. That's why we as a community need to step up and educate them. If kids are not in school or at home, they're in the streets. We can't control what goes on in someone household but we can help when they step foot out of their door.
You would be surprised at how much has been kept from the American public under the if you know you would only panic theory. You are not told everything about the wars we are fighting, or the economy or anything else of great importance. You are given what they think you can handle. Why spoil someone else's Christmas holiday with news that their child was bitten, but not infected. Sometimes ignorance is bliss and in this case it would have been.
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