So Martin has tested negative for HIV and Hepatitis C, but these were the preliminary tests and we can't exactly breathe our collective sigh of relief yet. As you know we still can't rule out the possibility of infection until he has successfully completed the 12 month mark and passed the tests. I am bracing myself for the three month mark which will be in June...just in time for my birthday. Then the six month mark, and finally 12 months. I am going to continue living my life, and loving my boyfriend, in the safest way possible.I can't sit around moping, and I will never just give up, but I do hate the fact that even though this doesn't happen that often...it does happen...it did happen....to us. What the actual outcome is still remains to be seen. I mean it's not that I hate what he does...he helps people, and he loves doing it, and I love him for doing it, but it can be so dangerous. He told me what seemed to be a horror story about another nurse who has gotten stuck with a needle over eight times, and once it was infected with HIV. That is just one of the hazards of the job. Funny in an ironic way, that one of the very things that makes me love him, would also be potentially deadly.