Next to the place we used to live in, we had a neighbor who had a family of nine. They lived happily and enjoyed life without disturbances.
As days went by and finally turned into months, the father of the nine children started loitering with the underage girls. When his childhood friend called Frederick, came to know his behavior, they parted ways.
After a few weeks his family started hearing rumors within the community that their father was using money to buy sex from the underage girls but they ignored, thinking it was all lies.
One evening, when he was from work, he was feeling unwell and he changed his clothes and got out of the house on pretext that he was going out to puff. His wife did not suspect anything, and just let him go, since she knew he will be back after a few seconds.
He went secretively to the hospital without the wife’s knowledge to be tested, since he already doubted his status on regard to his earlier promiscuous behavior.
Immediately, he requested the doctor to test his blood, he was first counseled so that he could accept the results in whichever way they came. Out of which he accepted whole heartedly.
His heart was thumping so hard, as he did not know what he would tell the wife, in case the results turned out to be positive, his forty days of a thief were already numbered. Still, he decided to put on a brave face and let the doctor test his blood.
After the long awaited moment, the results came out and showed that, he had tested positive. He was shocked and dumb founded but he had to change his ways and live with the reality. The doctor advised him to come back the following day accompanied with his wife so that the two of them could get tested once again so that his wife would be in a position to know her status.
On his way back home, he was shaking and was afraid to face his wife with such shocking, sad news. As he was approaching the doorstep to his house, he closed his eyes and said,’’ Lord, I know I have disappointed not only my wife but the entire family. Let them have more understanding and accept me with this virus.’’
Immediately, he knocked the door and it was opened, he went straight to the sitting room, swallowed food very fast and requested the children to go to bed.
The moment his children were in deep sleep, he told his wife about his status. She was shocked and lost for words, and just recalled the rumor that was going round in the community about his husband’s behavior, but she ignored.
Finally, he accepted the condition and they counseled each other, the following day; his wife went for HIV test and she turned out to be positive. Both of them started using Antiretroviral, (ARV), and up to date they still use the drugs.
One can hardly tell if they are positive since they are very healthy by just a look on their outside appearance.A great lesson to the young people, let them not get cheated by the physical looks, rather they should go for the test.
