Getting Real with Getting Old

In all the chaos, fear, and grief of the plague, it never occurred to me that survival would include getting old.

The Angst of Diminishing Superficial Beauty

Originally Posted September 2, 2019

When I was 22, I sat across the table from a San Diego County Healthcare Worker who told me I had 6 to 18 months to live. That’s what they told newly diagnosed HIV-positive men in 1987.

It seemed that getting old was not a state of being I’d ever need to face.

Until now. I’m 54 …