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Ways to live with diseases (including HIV/AIDS)
It is very important to realise, even at a very young age, that each day that you are alive, is a gift. Nobody ever knows for sure that he will still be alive the next day. That is why it is important to live each day as if it might be your last.
People who are aware that they suffer from a fatal disease, e.g. cancer or HIV/AIDS, need special attention and encouragement to remind them daily of their mortality. They have to endure pain and discomfort that nobody will understand who have not
experienced it.
Individual
Read the poem on your own, close your eyes and think about the meaning of the words:
If this were my last day I’m almost sure
I’d spend it working in my garden.
I would dig about my little plants, and try
To make them happy, so they would endure
Long after me. Then I would hide secure
Where my green arbour shades me from the sky,
And watch how bird and bee and butterfly
Come hovering to every flowery lure.
Then, as I rested, perhaps a friend or two,
Lovers of flowers would come, and we would walk
About my little garden paths and talk
Of peaceful times when all the world seemed true.
This may be my last day, for all I know;
What a temptation just to spend it so!
Anne Higgins Spicer ( Light from Many Lamps , 1951: 15)
Arbour means ‘tree’.
Lure means ‘to tempt someone to come closer’.
Answer these questions for yourself
Group Activity 1
The following list indicates ways to handle a serious disease so that the sick person as well as the people who are affected by the illness may carry on with their lives in a positive way.
Each group must choose at least two of the strategies for discussion, and also make new suggestions with regard to handling the diseases.
Acquire information on the disease
Always keep hoping
| Learning outcomes(LOs) |
| LO 1 |
| HEALTH PROMOTIONThe learner will be able to make informed decisions regarding personal, community and environmental health. |
| Assessment standards(ASs) |
| We know this when the learner: |
| 1.1 proposes ways to improve the nutritional value of own personal diet; |
| 1.2 evaluates actions to address an environmental health problem; |
| 1.3 describes strategies for living with diseases, including HIV/AIDS; |
| 1.4 discusses the personal feelings, community norms, values and social pressures associated with sexuality. |
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