America Living With AIDS

AMERICA Living With Al

I have a son who is infected
with HIV... He was doing very well, up until a couple of months ago.
He had to have his tonsils removed. And since then, he's been very
tired and just-he's worn out. And he's just tired of fighting this whole
thing. But he'll hear these little things from people, from school, from
the media. "I heard about a miracle cure." He came home saying,
"Mom, I heard about this cure. You know, can we check on it?
Can we go somewhere in France or something? It comes from some snake's
head or something-you know." And he gets his hopes up so much.
And just today when I called
to see how he was, he said, "Did you testify yet? Did you tell them?"
He said, "Did you tell them to hurry up and find a cure?" What do I
tell him? What do I tell him now? I mean he knows ddl is helping
him but now what do I tell him when he hears there's something going
on in France that is definitely a cure? "It's a real cure, Mom.
It is. That's what they're saying."
How do I explain to him that
it's maybe not? What do I tell him? What happens after ddl? I don't
know. I don't have the answers. I know what I need to tell him, but I
don't. I can't. He wants to have hone. I want to have hope, but I don't