My Weekly Blog #10
This week was my husband and I 12 years anniversary. We had dinner in our favorite restaurant, we cruise around like tourist and we watched movies all night. I wish we could spend the rest of our lives together; I want us to be part of the 50% that actually do not get divorce and work through their problems.
I have been trying to see what my grades are as of now and I have no idea for two of my classes. It seems like it was easier before to know if you are passing now not even if you ask for help you can know your grades. I am doing everything I can to get my work in but at the end I am not taking any more online classes unless I know the professor and good recommendations. I have wasted one term just because I could not find the answers to many of my questions...that’s including the textbooks these professors use. Like one of my books that give you practice exercises, on parenthesis they give you the page to where the answer might be found, when you turn to that page is information completely different than what they are asking. I end up finding the answer on another page. We pay hundreds for these books and they are not written correctly.
I feel the closer I get to my bachelors degree the less I understand neither my professors nor what is expected in some of my classes...

DO You Know...?
Babies who were born with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s have defied initial expectations.
With advances in medicine, the babies born with what was once thought of as a sure-fatal virus have danced at their high school proms, walked on stage to receive their diplomas and even experienced the birth of their children.
"It's a battle -- not because the HIV is going to defeat us," said Quintara Lane, a 22-year-old student with long braids. "It's more of what we have to go through to take care of ourselves" (CNN, 2009).
Lane is part of a generation that was born with the virus. Since the “mid-1990s in developed countries, antiretroviral drugs have largely prevented mothers from transmitting HIV/AIDS to their babies” (CNN, 2009).
Over the years, the number of pills required to treat HIV/AIDS has decreased significantly. But, it's not the physical side effects that bother patients.
"I'm only reminded of it when I have to take medication," said a 28-year-old with HIV who asked to be identified only as "Mike." "That's what we do. That's our lives" (CNN, 2009).
Mike contracted HIV after receiving a contaminated blood transfusion as a newborn.
According to the National Institutes of Health, (2010), “80 percent of HIV-infected children do not experience serious AIDS symptoms until school age or adolescence. Twenty percent of HIV-infected children die by 4 years of age. Without treatment, most infants die within the first year of life” (Ehow, 2010).
HIV infection symptoms manifest differently in babies due to immature immunity. Common disease conditions among babies and children with AIDS include “pneumonia, otitis media, chronic diarrhea, encephalopathy, cardiomyopathy, and cytomegalovirus disease (CMV). HIV-positive infants are generally symptom-free during the first few months of life” (Ehow, 2010).

Web: Retrieved April 5, 2010, from Life expectancy for infants born HIV positive by Aunice Y. Reed, (2010), from http://www.ehow.com/facts_6009566_life-infants-born-hiv-positive.html
Web: Retrieved April 5, 2010, from A Generation Born with HIV/AIDS Defies the Odds, updated June 22, 2009, by CNN, Madison Park, from http://www.cnn.com/2009/Health/06/22/hiv.children.generation/index.html