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   <updated>2008-11-06T20:41:43Z</updated>
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   <title>My fiftieth birthday </title>
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   <published>2008-11-06T20:39:33Z</published>
   <updated>2008-11-06T20:41:43Z</updated>
   
   <summary>November 7, 2008 This latest BLOG will be added to my reworked book as its ending. It hit me like a ton of bricks this morning on November 6 just as I was slurping the last of my milk from...</summary>
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      November 7, 2008 This latest BLOG will be added to my reworked book as its ending. It hit me like a ton of bricks this morning on November 6 just as I was slurping the last of my milk from...
      
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   <title>Happily Ever After</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2008:/ron//7.1492</id>
   
   <published>2008-10-31T00:34:20Z</published>
   <updated>2008-10-31T00:36:06Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Somebody recently asked me what I was looking for in a lover. “Wow!” I thought to myself. I never really considered forming a list whether in my mind or on paper, but it has made me think about it a...</summary>
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      Somebody recently asked me what I was looking for in a lover. “Wow!” I thought to myself. I never really considered forming a list whether in my mind or on paper, but it has made me think about it a...
      
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   <title>Part 3</title>
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   <published>2008-10-18T21:36:54Z</published>
   <updated>2008-10-18T21:41:46Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Dad and his Sour Cream My father is eighty-one years-old and enjoys when we go out to dinner because he likes my company too. I am a good sounding board for his complaints about his neighbors and all his projects...</summary>
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      Dad and his Sour Cream My father is eighty-one years-old and enjoys when we go out to dinner because he likes my company too. I am a good sounding board for his complaints about his neighbors and all his projects...
      
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   <title>Part Two</title>
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   <published>2008-10-05T19:08:44Z</published>
   <updated>2008-10-05T19:10:50Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Looking for Love I did not want to spend the rest of my life without a partner; be it years or even shorter than I hope my future to be. I was tired of living vicariously through friends spouting tales...</summary>
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      Looking for Love I did not want to spend the rest of my life without a partner; be it years or even shorter than I hope my future to be. I was tired of living vicariously through friends spouting tales...
      
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   <title>October 2008 Update</title>
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   <published>2008-10-02T14:52:07Z</published>
   <updated>2008-10-02T14:55:17Z</updated>
   
   <summary>I had my doctor appointment, October 1, 2008 and I received wonderful news today. My T-cells were 853 – up from 498 in June and I remain undetectable in my viral load. 853 is my all-time high since being diagnosed...</summary>
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      I had my doctor appointment, October 1, 2008 and I received wonderful news today. My T-cells were 853 – up from 498 in June and I remain undetectable in my viral load. 853 is my all-time high since being diagnosed...
      
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   <title>Memories, Tears and Apathy - Part 1</title>
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   <published>2008-07-20T20:39:07Z</published>
   <updated>2008-07-20T20:42:21Z</updated>
   
   <summary>I haven’t been writing much these days because it just seems everything has conspired to take the wind out of my sails – a perfect storm of seemingly diminutive events that just got a hold on me all at once...</summary>
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      I haven’t been writing much these days because it just seems everything has conspired to take the wind out of my sails – a perfect storm of seemingly diminutive events that just got a hold on me all at once...
      
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   <title>June 2008 Update</title>
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   <published>2008-06-18T22:21:10Z</published>
   <updated>2008-06-18T22:22:57Z</updated>
   
   <summary>I had my appointment today – CD 4 is 598 and viral load still undetectable. Last time my CD 4 was 627 and VL undetectable. My doctor was happy that the viral load has remained undetectable so long – almost...</summary>
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      I had my appointment today – CD 4 is 598 and viral load still undetectable. Last time my CD 4 was 627 and VL undetectable. My doctor was happy that the viral load has remained undetectable so long – almost...
      
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   <title>My Life</title>
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   <published>2008-05-01T21:15:25Z</published>
   <updated>2008-05-01T21:17:10Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Life’s happenings has trumped my HIV – mostly I cannot decide whether I like it or it sucks. I have been keeping myself busy with so many things. First, I had March that heralded spring. St. Paddy’s Day was quiet...</summary>
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      Life’s happenings has trumped my HIV – mostly I cannot decide whether I like it or it sucks. I have been keeping myself busy with so many things. First, I had March that heralded spring. St. Paddy’s Day was quiet...
      
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   <title>My dog, well, my mom&apos;s too</title>
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   <published>2008-03-05T23:16:38Z</published>
   <updated>2008-03-07T21:16:01Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Sadie – January 12, 1994 to March 3, 2008 Sadie had to be put down on 3/3/08 after a series of strokes incapacitated her earlier that day. Sadie was 14 years old – 98 for us – and I hope...</summary>
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      Sadie – January 12, 1994 to March 3, 2008 Sadie had to be put down on 3/3/08 after a series of strokes incapacitated her earlier that day. Sadie was 14 years old – 98 for us – and I hope...
      
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   <title>More than a wheelchair; more than HIV</title>
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   <published>2008-02-02T18:05:13Z</published>
   <updated>2008-02-02T18:11:48Z</updated>
   
   <summary>I was very forcefully reminded by one of my sisters, the one I live with; the one I’m closest too, when at the end of a phone conversation, she remarked, “I don’t think people really understand what you went through...</summary>
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      I was very forcefully reminded by one of my sisters, the one I live with; the one I’m closest too, when at the end of a phone conversation, she remarked, “I don’t think people really understand what you went through...
      
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   <title>January 2008 Update</title>
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   <published>2008-01-23T23:00:51Z</published>
   <updated>2008-01-23T23:04:58Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Happy New Year everyone (even though it is the end of January) My T-cells went from 630 to 627 and my viral load remains undetectable. All my other blood work – kidney, liver, etc – was very good and my...</summary>
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      Happy New Year everyone (even though it is the end of January) My T-cells went from 630 to 627 and my viral load remains undetectable. All my other blood work – kidney, liver, etc – was very good and my...
      
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   <title>WHEW!!!!!!!!!!!!</title>
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   <published>2008-01-03T21:11:04Z</published>
   <updated>2008-01-03T21:17:46Z</updated>
   
   <summary>Happy 2008! It HAS to be a good year! I know that I have been very remiss in keeping up with my BLOG, but it seemed right after my birthday in November, I got swamped with family scenarios, road trips...</summary>
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      Happy 2008! It HAS to be a good year! I know that I have been very remiss in keeping up with my BLOG, but it seemed right after my birthday in November, I got swamped with family scenarios, road trips...
      
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   <title>Birthday BLOG</title>
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   <published>2007-11-07T17:47:47Z</published>
   <updated>2007-11-07T17:50:00Z</updated>
   
   <summary>This is my birthday BLOG since I have so remiss in writing lately! Busy with the mini-van and rediscoveries! It has been 8 years since the PML diagnosis on Nov. 5, 1999 and today is my birthday, Nov. 7; 49...</summary>
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      This is my birthday BLOG since I have so remiss in writing lately! Busy with the mini-van and rediscoveries! It has been 8 years since the PML diagnosis on Nov. 5, 1999 and today is my birthday, Nov. 7; 49...
      
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   <title>My black suit</title>
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   <published>2007-10-08T19:35:06Z</published>
   <updated>2007-10-08T19:37:29Z</updated>
   
   <summary>I am sure that I will seem very superficial and vain when you read this, but this is back 8 years ago – not the person I am now or deep-down. This favored suit still hangs in the garment bag...</summary>
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      I am sure that I will seem very superficial and vain when you read this, but this is back 8 years ago – not the person I am now or deep-down. This favored suit still hangs in the garment bag...
      
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   <title>September 2007 Update</title>
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   <id>tag:blogs.poz.com,2007:/ron//7.847</id>
   
   <published>2007-09-28T20:33:34Z</published>
   <updated>2007-09-28T20:35:51Z</updated>
   
   <summary>I drove for the first time – ALONE – to my Infectious Disease doctor for the first time in 7 ½ years since being back home on 9/26 and my counts were: 630 T-cells and viral load remained undetectable. 6...</summary>
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      I drove for the first time – ALONE – to my Infectious Disease doctor for the first time in 7 ½ years since being back home on 9/26 and my counts were: 630 T-cells and viral load remained undetectable. 6...
      
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