Snow and HIV

So, I woke to snow this morning. It snowed because I had a bunch of errands to run, including making a special trip to the clinic to fill out a bunch of forms for a patient of mine. Damn, should have done them on Friday! But... My motivation to get out and run errands was knowing that the JEEP is so much fun to drive in the snow... Anyway, the snow should be lightening up a bit as the day goes on. It's a wet snow, I had to resist the urge to throw snowballs :)

At our hospital they run HIV tests on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I saw a kiddo recently who had an infection that he shouldn't have at his age. In fact, when I saw this kid, my heart sunk, and I was immediately back in South Africa. I have seen this before, and on those kids we didn't even bother to test for HIV since there wasn't any treatment. So there I was, trying to explain to Dad that while this is most likely not a big deal (I used better terms than that), we needed to check for HIV. And Dad didn't even seem to flinch at the mention. Hmmm. Anyway, when I get to work this afternoon, I'm going to check on the results.