Diabetes worse than HIV?
Posted By wayan On March 31, 2006 @ 8:27 am In Life in the Capitol | Comments Disabled
Today I went for my annual physical, and as you can see, even got an EKG. While discussing my adventuress with alcohol [2] and wounds from dancing with toro El Tamarindo [3] my doctor, Dr. Bruce S Rashbaum, said I have a heart murmur [4]. I was stressing about it until he told me to chill and said I am HIV-free.
Discussing my joy to be virus clean, Dr. Rashbaum took an odd tangent. He said that HIV today is not like it was 10 years ago. Now it’s more a chronic disease than a killer, diabetes not a death sentence. Wait, check that.
He said that if he had to pick between the two, HIV would be easier to manage and live with than diabetes. That somehow a blood sugar deficiency is worse than an immune deficiency.
Now that is a novel statement, what with all the sex = death hype that HIV gets in this town. Might Dr. Rashbaum be on to something here, or should I be worried about that murmur more than he let on?
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[1] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcmetroblogger/120372650/
[2] adventuress with alcohol: http://www.bellybuttonwindow.com/archives/000568.html
[3] dancing with toro El Tamarindo: http://www.bellybuttonwindow.com/archives/000661.html
[4] I have a heart murmur: http://www.bellybuttonwindow.com/archives/000668.html
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