My mother and sister

[Orkide]

I am a girl of teenage years who is very concerned about my mother and my little sister.

My mother and sister have always taken daily medicine, but I never knew why, because it is not something we really have talked about in our family. I have sometimes asked my sister why she takes the medicine, and she said that she don't know and that they will tell her when she gets older and understand. After getting a little older I got more concerned and I wonder why they take all the medicine every day.

One day I went on Google and wrote the name of one of the pills my sister takes daily - Kaletra (she takes 2 kinds of pills.). The first thing I spotted was "against HIV." I got afraid and didn't know how to react. Then I tried to search for the other pill she takes - Viread. Again the "against HIV" appears. I seached for my mother's medicine too (Ziagen and Videx) which unfortunately said the same.

I told my mother that I know what illness they have, but we haven't talked more about it. I'm afraid to ask what's going on, because I fear what it will mean for the future and for my dear sister who is still young.
In my head everything is a mess. I'm confused and often ask myself how this can be possible when I don't have HIV.

For a few years ago I lost my father, who died of cancer. After reading about HIV / AIDS, I have found out that AIDS is developing infections and cancers. Could it be possible that my father got AIDS from my mother and died of it because of the developed cancer? My father had cancer in the lymph-nodes and had fungus on his tongue before he died.

There is a lot of questions I want answers to.
What will this virus mean for my sister and mother in the future and is there anything that can help other than their medication?

After I found out I'm feeling very bad and often get mood swings. I feel like I'm keeping a big secret that I need to talk with my family about to get calm - But again, I fear what is going to happen in the future. When I'm not thinking about it I'm fine, but when I start thinking about it I start to cry because I don't want to lose them and because I'm afraid of going through the same as when my father died.

Hope to hear from you.
Thanks in advance, Kind regards

[Orkide]

We spoke. on the phone, and that's probaly why she didn't say much. She's on a trip at the moment but I think she is going to bring it up when she's back home

[Teak]

Then there is nothing more to talk about.

[Orkide]

I just noticed some misspellings. Hope you understand anyway.

[Orkide]

I told my mother that I know what illness they have. We didn't talk more about it after that. So she knows that I know.

I'm like you thinking that it's strange she didn't tell me.

[LIZZIE LOU]

if your mother and little sister have hiv...then you should be confronting your mother about this.  strange that your mother has not talked to you...strange.