Health update

I've become so focused on my heart disease, over the past few years. As well I should have, no doubt. But a recent experience of a friend has got me to thinking. He is a twenty year survivor of AIDS. He's fought the disease on every level. For his own health, for the health of his family. He has worked and led countless charitable organizations dedicated to the cause. He was recently diagnosed with a particularly nasty form of cancer.

He is so healthy in terms of his HIV status that they are using aggressive treatment to fight the cancer. This is the first time I have seen him weak. I've told him, he is obviously a survivor and he agreed. He just finds it so ironic that this has come close to ending his life, when for the past twenty years or so, he's been written off by society as being close to death. He said to me he is so surprised to be going this way. This reminds me of another person in a similar situation.

This lady is HIV (+) as well as having heart disease. The social stigma this poor girl feels about her HIV status, is so real, that she is doing negligible care for her heart troubles. The reason? Her obituary. I told her she may want to seek counseling, because it is pretty fatalistic to prefer one death to another, and for that a matter of fleeting interest to shut ins and biographers, that of the obituary?

I am getting to something for real. I want to start focusing on whole health. Not just heart health. I do not expect to live to be one hundred like my grandma, but I think I'll make a fantastic sexagenarian. I actually plan on being an octo, but I really like the term for 60 year olds. I need to watch what I eat and how I exercise for my heart, but I also need to focus on wellness and staying healthy.

am fortunate to not be hosting any nasty viruses, like some of the friends I've mentioned, but I am sure healthy living on my part will only help me with my life.

Kronick
aka Kevin 3.1

[...driving by in the White Car...]