Living With HIV– Loyce's Story

It throws me off all my happiness and All my life, and it was just terrible. I want other women to avoid going through what I went through. So one day, I decided to go to my local clinic to access my antiretroviral therapy drugs because I'm also HIV positive. Present, I have a boyfriend who came into my life who is a very supportive and caring person. I found him online HIV dating sites when my friend suggested that this site is only for HIV Positive Personals. There you can also read tips on Dating with HIV.

 I was very fortunate that when I went to the clinic, the peer educator who was at the clinic was talking about cervical cancer. That's when I could connect that maybe what was going through in my life as well could have been cervical cancer? So that's when I decided to go and visit the clinic where the screening was done. So I was able to see the difference between my cervix on the screen and the normal cervix that the peer educator had shown me.

I was scared, even on myself; I could see that my cervix was not okay because it's not like today you take your specimen to the lab, and tomorrow the results are out. It wasn't easy, and I had to start pushing for my products, and here is a sick person who's bleeding every day. You take your specimen to the lab, and you are told, no, you have to wait for results. I became so anxious, and It took about two weeks, or so the doctor read through the results. When I was told that I had cervical cancer, I even said, you have cervical cancer in Stage IIB.

I must tell you that was the worst day of my life because that was so devastating. I felt so bad because just to be said that I had cancer, to me, it was almost like a death sentence. I lost my mother and dad to liver cancer. I had a sister who died of oesophagus cancer. I have another sister who's a survivor like me. So to me, that word cancer me was automatically death. So to be told that now we have cancer in these hospitals, and there is treatment, there is equipment that gave me some hope. I was very hopeful and looking forward to starting treatment. They said no, we have to book you in because we have a long queue of women waiting for treatments. So you can imagine the frustration that was going through my mind. It was so terrible.

So after two weeks, we went back to the hospital only to be told you're not starting treatment today. You have to go through other investigations because they have to aim exactly where the cancer is when they are doing radiotherapy. So they booked me again, thinking after the same I was going to start treatment, it was not the case. So I had to be booked again. Finally, that day arrived. My family was very supportive, and They escorted me to the hospital because I lost my employment. I had stopped working because which employer would take you in every day you are bleeding, every day you want to take a day off. Financially I was down, and I had stopped socializing. I could not go anywhere because you'd never know when I start bleeding. I just became weak. Then I said, am I going to pull through? But I was so hopeful I had a strong will to live.

The worst part is that you will have already gotten it when it starts bringing out symptoms because one will never know when one has the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer. So the best thing is to go and have you screened so that it's detected and avoid many pressures that I went through. Who knows, you might save your life. - Over the next, it's five years. We must ensure we have 90%of these girls getting vaccinated that we provide, that over 70% of these women are getting screened sure that women are getting treated.- And I'm sure there are still other women now who have not yet gone for screening because of fear because this is one disease up to now I still dread it. It almost claimed my life.

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