Last Wednesday I was standing in line at the sandwich counter in the small cafeteria by my office when my phone rang. It was my doctor. A week earlier I had blood drawn to check my T-Cell count and the results were abnormally low. My T-Cell count was 363 per microliter, healthy people have between 500 and 1500. My doctor spoke in a worried and irritated voice, he sounded like he didn't understand something and didn't want to say more than was necessary. "There's a possibility you've been infected with the HIV virus," he said. "I'd like you to come down and get tested as soon as you can."
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