Marge and I have nearly completed our ABWE application and have been informally told that we should plan on attending the candidate seminar in February. The application is nothing if not thorough.
One of the "deliverables" is a Dr.s report. I had a full annual physical last September so I thought, "Hey, no sweet." I sent the form to my Dr. and was told that there were several tests that I had never had. One of them was a blood test for HIV. Never needed one of those. Another was a test that I haven't had since I was a child: Tuberculosis test. Also needed to get a baseline chest X-Ray, and some other samples that don't really need to be printed here (I think you can guesse).
The HIV test is a little embarasing. I've heard preachers refer to AIDS as the modern day Leprosy. I would agree that there is some truth to that. In many places in the world, individuals with AIDS are shunned by the family and community. It happens in the United States, but in parts of the Third World, AIDS victims are shunned to a degree to which we can not imagine.
I kept having the urge to
Ooops, I got to go. I'll finish this later
Thursday, December 21, 2006
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