George Leeper
Ode to Medication or… How I Got On The Pill The Three Musketeers of my life are Sir Viramune, Sir Epivir, and Sir Zerit. I first met these three gentlemen two-and-a-half years ago. The following stanzas are the application and history of the three above-mentioned soldiers of fortune (if you can apply them in time). First, there is Sir Viramune, whose bloodline can be traced back to the non-nuke family— probably overall the weakest link of the three due to the fact of protein binding, which can go as high as 96% and also the first to become resistant to the fight for undetectability. Second, we have perhaps my favorite of all time: Sir Epivir, who belongs to the Nucleoside Analogue House of Nobility— who also fights more than one opponent at a time (Epivir can fight HIV and HEP B) and boosts AZT if you become resistant to it. Third, but not least, Sir Zerit— who is a hell of a warrior, but sometimes has a tendency to hurt the one he is defending by bringing on neuropathy (damaging the nerve endings in the feet and hands). As you can see, by combining all three of these warriors a person under their protection has an above-average chance to survive. In a way, I feel like d’Artagnon with an undetectable viral load. So there is strength in numbers.
