Reverend Serafin

[scott snedeker]

So my next patient 22 years old present with weakness, fever diarrhea, and swollen glands. I dread asking the questions that I must.

Do you have sex with men, women, or both?

--Both

Do you bottom or top

--Bottom

with or without a condom?

--without

So his screening ELISA is negative for anitbody to HIV 1 and 2.... and his HIV RNA titer comes back........... 268,465 copies

" You have AIDS" I report to this........ child

He sobs and my heart breaks again. "I hate this job!!!"


So I go through the routine.

So I call the hospital chaplain, Reverend Serafin. Sounds like a name out of a novel but that is indeed her real name.

She does her best.... and I am grateful, because I don't have what it takes to give what this child needs today.