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Peekawho can you read this

Peek, I know that its pretty obvious that everyone on this site knows that i have irrational HIV fears and that i get scared real easily. But i have something that i wanna ask you. My girlfriend is about to start the nursing program and i am totally scared over it. I am so scared of her being around blood all the time and needles and being around patients with HIV. It scares me. Is it right to let MY fears and my worrying let that get in her way of becoming a nurse. Is there any real worry of becoming infected while treating patients. I know that they teach you about universal precautions and stuff but that doesnt guarantee you from anything. I just have about 6 more weeks to go until i can get tested and find out if i had been poked from a HIV infected needle in that garbage can infront of walgreens. While im here, what is the percentage of false positive tests with the rapid finger prike test. I know that the oral rapid test has a higher chance of a false positive than the finger prike test does. I was at one time taking some steroids pills that a doctor gave me for some rashes that i was getting. Can those pills effect the outcome of my test in 6 weeks. Thanks peek i hope you can answer.
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i wanna test now but then ill be back like everyone else who tested at 6 weeks. Its not conclusive and i know that. I am just gonna wait 6 more weeks and get tested at 12 that way if its negative i wont have any doubt that it is negative.
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I know, I like the Suns.

Just take the test now, it's not going to be any different. You are too afraid of things to get HIV in the first place.
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Once P.J. Brown decides to sign with the suns then its over. You see how Amares back and of the best centers in the league and Nash is the best point guard in the league. PLus Marion and Barbosa and everyone else, its already over for the season. Everyone else should just pack it up and not even come to the start of the season. They should just give the trophy to the suns right now.
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well hopefully my test will be negative in 6 weeks which i believe it will be. If im not even certain that i was poked or not probably means that i wasnt poked at all. I probably dont even need to be tested but i am going to just be 100% sure.
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your right Jag
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No, he's letting his irrational feal disrupt SOMEONE ELSE'S life. FAAAAAAR worse than just his own.
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It's not overprotective? uh.... You're trying to have your irrational (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She WILL NOT get infected by HIV from becoming an RN. My mom was an RN for sooooo long, she was hospice, she undoubtedly had end stage AIDS patients and such...she's as healthy as can be, Peek has been an RN forever, she ain't +ve, etc. It just doesn't happen in this day and age, sorry to burst your bubble) fear rule how your girlfriend's life. That's just sad (and frankly, you're trying to kill your girlfriend's dreams; I find that disgusting). HIV is the LAST thing you should worry about.

And my C's are gonna see you guys in the finals...we just need some more role players (like Sam Cassell) to go with da big 3 (and James Posey).
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that was my follow-up as well.

forgot to write it in my original.


GOOD CALL TEAK
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I think, as a previous forum-poster wrote earlier today...
You are projecting an irrational fear of HIV onto your gf and her future occupation.
Nevertheless, you claim you were pricked by a needle in front of Walgreens.

You are letting your irrational fear disrupt your entire life....now,....there is nothing anyone here can write to really help you.

Does anyone disagree with me?

B .
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You honestly need to seek the help of a mental health professional with all your phobias.
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BY the way. SUNS are gonna win it all
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I know but it just scares the **** out of me. Its not over protective, she knows that i get freaked out about blood and stuff like that and she knows how i am always worried about HIV so when i tell her that i dont want her to become a nurse she doesnt look at it like me being protective because she already knows how i am.
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Hah!

"She aint gonna ever leave me."

Keep it up, bud. You'll be eating those words very soon. This is beyond over-protective. You should not let your irrational fears rule anyone's life (I can think of many facist leaders who did...they are highly revered). Plus, you are being extremely, extremely selfish and egocentric.
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What does all of that mean, She aint gonna ever leave me. I tell her all the time that i dont want her to become a nurse.
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An uber-hypochondriac with an RN girlfriend. Hah! Laughing out loud. Dude, you better get your fears in check REAL fast or you ain't gonna be getting no action no more!!! Just remember, you keep it up, yo @ss is gonna get dropped quicker than Steve Nash by Robert Horry (I hate Spurs, had to come up with something though).

Good luck!
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