Blog #10

Wow, this is the 9th blog that I’ve written but yet it feels like I’ve written more! This blogging experience has been new to me this semester and I’ve surprisingly liked it. This week we’re supposed to be working on the M&M project and I must say that it is tough to be swallowing m&ms on a daily basis. It’s hard enough to remember to take this make believe pills in the quantity that we have to but swallowing them can sometimes be difficult. Sometimes they get stuck in my throat two-thirds the way down and I’ll eat a piece of bread to push it down. Although I like chocolate and love m&ms, I cannot just chew on them because this project is supposed to be a simulation of what people with real HIV go through in having to take medications on a daily basis for the rest of their lives. I am so blessed to be healthy and be living a happy life. People take it for granted that we are healthy or that things are going our way. We could have easily been born with this disease without any chance of preventing it. We should always be grateful for our blessings because our lives could be a lot worse. Right now as I’m listening to classical music while writing this blog, I just wish that the world was free from evil thoughts, killings, deaths, diseases and instead full of love happiness, humbleness and good hearted people. When I listen to this kind of music it just puts me in that mind frame because the music is so soothing, peaceful, and loving.

Did you know?,,,
In Indiana prisons in 2002, occurrences of HIV cases among inmates were in the process of leveling off although the incidence was 10 times higher than those in the regular population (The Body, 2002). At the time, there were 215 people in Indiana prisons with HIV but roughly 1 percent, or 21,507 people, was HIV-positive according to the Department of Correction officials (The Body, 2002). The rate number of HIV-positive prisoners had slowed down compared to the rate of the overall prison population (The Body, 2002). The percentage of HIV-positive inmates in Indiana had reached below the national average of 2.1 percent and Prison and health experts attribute the trend to “increased awareness of the disease and improved treatment” (The Body, 2002).

The Body. (2002). Retrieved by November, 4, 2009, from http://www.thebody.com/content/art30930.html#hiv_inmates