Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Just a little about me.....
My name is Desiree I am a junior at UCF and this also my first year at UCF. I love to play sports especially basketball. My major is biology/pre-professional and I plan to go to medical school and be an anesthesiologist. I picked this class because they told me I needed a certain amount of electives to graduate and this seemed fairly interesting. I'm hoping to learn alot about HIV/AIDS so that I can share what I have learned with people that I love so they can be aware of what is going on. Many people still are in the dark about this disease. I know I was although I have a family member that has AIDS. My family never really talked about it, it was like a subject that you just brush under the rug and forget it's there. But I am really hoping that what I learn from this class will help me be able to share information with them and educate them a little better.
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Hi Desiree, Glad to meet you, I just wanted to introduce myself and to let you know that my middle name is Desiree and I think that its a really nice name. Anyway I want to just mention that I agree with you that people try to ignore this disease, but its so talked about and it affects so may lives that it would be impossible to ignore.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to class, Desiree. Perhaps after you finish this class you may find yourself wanting to become an infectious disease doctor. We need so many of them with all the new diseases that are coming out of the rain forests.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to UCF! I'm taking this class as an elective too, hoping to learn a lot of great information about HIV/AIDs as well. I do not have anyone in my family with this disease but the trending topic seems to be that families like to keep it a secret so there may be someone in my family with HIV that I just do not know about. I'd love to know more about this disease so that I can pass along the knowledge to my family.
ReplyDeleteYou must thrive under pressure Desiree! I always found the idea of putting someone under so nerve wrecking, but it is definitely oh-so-important in our hospitals, and someone's has to do it! I wonder how the virtual cousin question affected you since you really did have a family member that had HIV. Was it a different experience for you to consider that possibility and idea again?
ReplyDeleteI'm a native Floridian, well mostly, but I too was shocked when I read our statistics. I can't wait to read your blog, especially the possible cures portion. Thanks for following mine I hope we all can learn something more than the day before.
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