Truth and drugs (and snow)

I woke up this morning to find a blanket of white covering my world. I live in the east of England and snow happens here about 2 days of the year so this is a very cool (excuse the pun) event. Having had a few too many drinks last night I have so far not ventured out into the wintery wonderland that is outside. In fact given the heating in my house is not working particularly well so I think that I might just stay in bed.

I have started on a course of supressive therapy. My last outbreak was one of the worst I have had - not very painful or itchy but it took a while to clear up. It has for now retreated and I have been prescribed acyclovir twice a day for the forseeable future. I think that having an outbreak is one of the hardest things about herpes - it is a constant reminder . I hope the supressive drugs stop me from having such regular outbreaks and that I might be able to reclaim a normal sex life (actually I want a fun sex life - I am not sure this means a 'normal' one but I think you know what I mean).

Talking about sex life I am sure you are itching (oh dear, another pun!) to know what happened with the 'new girl' that I was spoke about in my last post. Well, I told her! This was about 2 weeks ago - I found myself walking to her house and I had already decided that I had to do it. I was nervous but not as nervous as I had expected to be. I walked into her room and sat down and we spoke first about everyday things. I realised that the time had come and I just had to be a man and so I spoke.

I told her that I had something to tell her and she sat down and looked at me with her beautiful green eyes. I looked staight back at her and for a minute I couldn't speak. I took a deep breath and then the words came. I started by asking her if she knew what cold sores are and then I explained that I get cold sores, just somewhere else. I talked about what a common sti herpes is and I explained that with supressive medication, condoms and abstinence during and immediately after an outbreak the chance of transmission is incredibly small (this is difficult to quantify and I will talk about it another time). After about 10 minutes I realised that I probably should have prepared slides (joking!) and so I stopped.

She looked at me and then she kissed me.