Re: WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
Had an interesting conversation with a patient yesterday. It was a one year later talk...it was about a year ago I told him in clinic he was HIV+. We have both come a long way...he is managing his illness very well, and I am a lot more comfortable talking with LGBT community members (he identifies as a gay male) due to my internship. He hasn't been in my office since the diagnosis but is in a healthy space where he admitted he didn't want to go to my office. We talked about that first and went into a lot of of the illness management topics afterwards - from meds management, new stuff on the horizon, general health, condom usage, disclosure to a partner, etc. I could tell he left even more respectful of me as a professional.
People can grow and change for the better when facing challenges. His challenge of managing the illness is obviously different from mine, but my challenge of being comfortable in providing a higher lever of care as a social worker is no slouch either.
Guess this is what makes life interesting. Those who can manage change well enough have an interestingly powerful and largely positive arc. Those who don't...
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