It was late, but I still couldn't sleep. My chest was so stuffy that I could hardly breathe. At the beginning of this year, I had some physical symptoms, the most serious of which was blood in my stool, which was extremely painful. It was not until April that I had the courage to go to the hospital for treatment because I felt embarrassed to take off my pants in front of the doctors and nurses. After an electronic anorectal examination, the doctor found many problems and recommended that I have an operation. An hour after the preoperative examination, the blood test results came out, but the doctor refused to perform the operation on me because I was HIV positive. This result was not a bolt from the blue for me, but the looks from the doctors and nurses made me want to jump directly from the outpatient building (since this was a rapid test, the hospital was afraid that the test results would be inaccurate and asked me to go for a re-examination the next day. If the result was confirmed to be positive the next day, they would ask for my identity information). When I came out of the hospital, it was drizzling in Shenyang in April and the sky was gray, just like my mood. I called my two best friends and told them the test results. They said, "It may be a misdiagnosis. Go to the CDC tomorrow for an accurate test. Don't worry about it." "Your heart is not good. Don't think too much. Rapid…