It might also be that you know, if you get it, it's not automatic death in a year, or even 10. You know how the therapy works, and believe that you could follow it through.
I haven't gotten any less rigorous about safer sex, though. I do think sometimes about "what if I got it?", and I probably do have a better sense of what that would actually be like than most people do. But when I think of how I might contract it, I think of things like street rape, or assault-with-biting by a patient. I don't worry about getting it through my normal activities.
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Date: 2002-04-11 12:38 pm (UTC)I haven't gotten any less rigorous about safer sex, though. I do think sometimes about "what if I got it?", and I probably do have a better sense of what that would actually be like than most people do. But when I think of how I might contract it, I think of things like street rape, or assault-with-biting by a patient. I don't worry about getting it through my normal activities.