Chapter 2
Difficult
times
At the end, Brian lived with her grandmother
and he became 15 years old. Brian was very active, was loving to make new
friends. But friends of him were not very smart good guys. Some of them were
using drugs. Some of them were sent to jail due to robbery, rape. Brian could
not stop himself and finally he started on drugs too. That interest ended up
using IV (Intravenous) drugs. Poor Brian, he was in a trouble. One day he lost
his mind, needing drug IV. It was a crisis. He used a friend’s needle to inject
drug. And he got calm down. After a while, he realized that he used someone
else’ needle. And the owner of needle had been sick for a while before that
crisis. Brian started to think if he got infected by any virus. He tried to
talk his friend and his friend told him that he didn't know if he had any
infection. So, they decided to go to a doctor, but they didn’t have enough
money to pay 250 US dollars doctor visit and also no health insurance. So, they
found a way to get tests. They applied for blood donation. Because they do
hepatitis, HIV tests for free for donors. They went to a hospital but before
that, they tried to look good, bought new clothes. Before donation, they were
asked to fill a form if they were suitable to donate blood. There was a
question: “Are you an intravenous drug user?” They decided to choose “No”.
Otherwise, that would be a risk for them about being refused without test. They
needed test, so they chose “no”.
