I have this hard partying friend. She likes to go out a lot, get drunk. Sure we have a lot of good times together and some are incredibly, yet vaguely, memorable. But one thing that really disturbs me about her wild ways (and she’s a really wild child) is the fact that sometimes, she likes to hook up with some guy whom she hardly even knows. Sure she uses protection but last Saturday, she called me crying.
This story is incredibly sad.
It seems that some cold sores that appeared on her lips didn’t want to go away and the tests came out positive for herpes simplex virus. Personally, I don’t know much about the disease so I went and googled it. Shockingly enough, herpes starts out very simply. You never know who has it and there’s no cure for it. And then when you get it, it’s there for life. The sores come and go so it’s hard to tell who has it. You can go for treatments to make it better and you can stay away from stress to reduce the intensity of the episode but sadly, there really is no cure for herpes.
I wish my friend all the best in life and I hope someday, someone will figure out how to get rid of it for good.