35. The LGBT drug lords

In the house next to the dispensary of the Peasant Health Network of Santo Tomás, a young man came to live who after a few days became flesh and blood. He was accompanied by his mother who went to look for the doctor when he was complicated.

"How do you feel?" The doctor asked that boy who was dying in front of her eyes.

"I have AIDS," she replied with her muffled voice.

- How old are you?

-  Twenty-two.

-What is your name?

- Robert

"I'm going to take his blood pressure," said Dr. Máxima, just as a group of transvestites arrived.

- How are you? One of them asked.

"I still don't know," replied the boy, who was very happy to see them.

The doctor continued with her medical examination, interspersed with questions to the patient.

-I think he's very delicate. You have to compensate for the dehydration caused by his diarrhea.

At the dispensary, the nurse Berta refused to give him the vitamin serum, for fear of contracting the disease.

- No doctor, I can not put you, I have children and family. It scares me.

-Okay, I'll put him on. Please pass me the serum, the B complex, and these antibiotics from this recipe.

The doctor placed the serum with all the precautions to avoid contact with the blood.

-Thank you, doctor, I answered one of her travesties. Generally, I give him the serums, because the doctors and nurses don't want to do it.

- Do you have AIDS too?

- Yes, but I have been receiving retroviral treatment at the La Esperanza hospital for years. It seems I have it under control.

-Where did our friend work?

- He was our best hairdresser, at the hairdresser down the road.

The next day when he went to the dining room where he used to have his breakfast, the black Tomasa, with was an excellent onion, he saw many transvestites, who participated in the Virgen del Carmen party, which included his fashion show.

  It was a large meeting, at the hairdresser, which also attended young people who were not from Santo Tomás. Most wore mourning clothes.

- What happened to your neighbors? - asked Máxima- To the black Tomasa, who was also wearing mourning clothes.

- At twelve we are going to bury the one who was the queen of San Medardo, the neighboring town.

-She was also she LGTB or something similar?

-She didn't but her boyfriend was bisexual.

- Did she know?

- I do not know. A groom is a young man who is sick and lives next to the dispensary.

That night, Máxima had to do a health program, like every Tuesday, on the television channel that gave cable television to the inhabitants of Santo Tomás and San Medardo. In the street, before reaching the canal, there was a coffin, which was watched over by the people, who had gathered to pray all night.

The funeral home had placed tents on the street, chandeliers, a coffin with a window facing the face of what was a beautiful young woman of 20 years. People lined up to look at her one last time, praying and placing flowers on the box. Among those who accompanied him was the entire LGTB group that met the hairdresser in the morning.

The talk on the channel was precisely about the problem of AIDS and the need for pregnant women to take HIV tests, to be able to do a blood transfusion, and prevent AIDS in newborns, which was a campaign that carried it forward the government, as well as the use of condoms in sexual relations.

The next day she went to see her neighbor, who reacted very well to the medication.

"The one who was the queen of the town of San Medardo died yesterday, and they told me that she was her girlfriend," the doctor commented.

-We met when she was a candidate and she came to have her comb at the hairdresser. We were a couple.

-Did she know you were bisexual?

- Not at first, but then yes.

- Did she also use drugs like you?

-Not at first, but then she used marijuana to avoid gaining weight and the rest came.

As the days went by, Roberto seemed to improve, that the treatment of retroviral drugs that they gave him in La Esperanza had good results. She, even she, was happy, congratulated him when she saw him walk and smile with his transvestite friends, who took care of him, accompanied him on his walks through the town. But the joy did not last long.

-Doctor! Come quickly. The neighbor is sick, the nurse told him.

When checking him in his bed, the doctor diagnosed a picture of seizures and fever, which she had seen in a friend, a fellow student, also gay, who went to Spain and returned with AIDS, it was the typical invasion of the brain by amoebae.

-It's wrong, it is very likely that we will come out of the coma- she told the friends gathered at the entrance. You have to call the ambulance.

The stretcher entered the ambulance with Roberto's body, which in a few days was bone and skin, with huge eyes, he could no longer speak, he only blinked. As the door closed, Maxima said goodbye to her patient.