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All of our recent "fan mail" is now posted on our Yahoo (TheMonthlySocial) group. We keep this page here to show off our "pre-Yahoo" fan mail. Even though the mail here is from several years past, rest assured that the socials are still going strong here in 2008, and are as popular as ever!
Fan Mail for the Monthly Social:
Written to a local poz Yahoo group Sat. 19 JUL 2003 1:36:42 PM, under the Subject header: First Social Attended
Hello All,
Fan Mail for the HIV Drug Info page:
I just wanted to say thank you to all of you who made
me feel so comfortable at the barbecue social last
saturday. I sort of felt as if I "Belonged" and
people "understood". Especially when my alarm went off
for me to take my meds. LOL
I look forward to the next one, should I be in town
and not in some other country on a business trip.
Thanks,
Mike
One young man from Phoenix, Arizona read of the Monthly Socials on AOL and flew in to DC to sample it:
>Thank you for posting your socials on the Internet. I just wanted to
>say what a great time I had at the social. I met some really nice men. I will
>be doing my best to come back and visit the DC area. I think it is great that
>everyone has wonderful support groups for fun and entertainment.
>Thanks
>Curt (skyking240@aol.com)
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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:37:00 -0400
>... I consider these events MORE valuable
>and helpful than either moe [sic] formal peer-counseling or the Whitman-Walker
>POz discussion group I recently dropped out of.
>-- Tom
[Editorial note: The above personal reaction does not fit all people at all stages of their learning to deal with living with HIV. We consider that he graduated from one stage and entered another. We too have our graduates and returning alumni.]
From: JBW
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:49:40 -0400
>This is a great page. I am a transcriptionist doing a lot of reports for
>HIV + people and kept getting stuck on the drug names. Thanks for your
>great page. I have passed the info on to the folks I work with.
>jbw
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998 12:39:14 +0200, diyelec wrote:
>Hi, my name is chris. I live in South Africa, I discovered I was HIV +
>about eight months ago, I have been taking 3 drugs, videx, zerrit snd
>novair. I have developed side effects, aand decided to look for information
>on the internet and discovered your website. I have found out of all the
>websites that yours in the most comprehesive when looking for information
>on drugs, and the side effects.
>My doctor has recently done tests for cd4 and viral load, my viral load is
>down to 1149, and he is changing my medication to cixivan and novair, he
>has explained to me how the drug should be admistered, and the infomation
>he provided was diffrent from the infomation on your website, so I spoke to
>him about this.
>He was quite stunned and said he would come back to me, which he has and
>has discovered that the information has been changed and he was not
>informed or kept up to date, Thanks for the information it is of great
>value for both patients and doctors
>
>Thanks
>
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