Why does it always rain on me ??

Today was officially the worst day at work since I have arrived in Poland. For past few days we were under lots of pressure from 2 biggest customers. We were literarily turning the world upside down in order to get everything organized with container deliveries and also positioning for loadings and today everything and i mean everything started to go wrong and the worst part of it that the reason for these unfortunate events were beyond our control and we simply couldn’t influence them at all. Stuck in the middle between angry subcontractors being on our case as we hold them from earning their money as well as customer on the other side not interested in the fact that we can’t do anything if the vessel is delayed. At that point i'd like to say that operations are not really my favorite part of the freight forwarding business. On top of that i am trying to prepare for the area managers meeting next week in Stockholm as I was requested to do presentation about the Polish office and it’s development plans. I have managed to draft the bullet point over the weekend, however I didn’t have chance to work on the presentation yet.... So, what I am trying to say is that I am under more than a little pressure right now. Having said I also want to mention that this is only work..... 'Don't cry over something, that can't cry over you'  - as David grandma would say.....

On the ball.....

I have found an article (please see the below link) on the Red Ribbon Army’s Facebook page. To be perfectly honest I was slightly confused. I’ve felt like i am having a ‘deja vu’. In the last quarter of last year when my doctor started to prepare me psychologically for my treatment, he was explaining me things using almost the same arguments. He didn’t mentioned where the studies were made, however the outcome was almost exactly the same.  He told me that the new guidelines in UK say that the best time to start treatment is when CD4 count is approaching 350. Now.....is our good old NHS so ahead of the rest of the world with various studies regarding the HIV ?....or perhaps the website is not really ‘on the ball’ with latest treatment updates ? It is for me hard to believe that such important findings would not be shared with international HIV community and if that is the case then this really really scares me.

http://www.aidsmap.com/starting-HIV-therapy

Maths against HIV....

Very interesting article - please find the link below. It seems that my primary school math  teacher was right saying that absolutely everything, the whole world, whole universe, the whole 'being', evolves around numbers.....
http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/hiv_math_model

On the right track.....

It seems that we are on the right track.... Just called my doctor. The viraload came back as less than 40, meaning UNDETECTABLE !! On top of that the CD4 count is also going back up..... 375. 

I am simply over the moon !

127 hours.......

It’s a public holiday in Poland today - Corpus Christi, church processions all over the country and everything is closed. I was planning to go to the office anyway in order to catch up on some issues, however I really don’t feel like it right now....perhaps a little bit later. 

Last night I have watched very inspiring Danny Boyle’s movie from 2010 called ‘127 hours’. It’s a true story of a mountain climber, Aaron Ralston, who on 25th April 2003 went on a canyoneering (I looked that one up - I didn’t have clue what this type of sport/outdoor activity is called) trip to the Canyonlands National Park in Utah only to return armless, after 5 traumatic days trapped in a canyon. The deep desire to live pushed Aron to a desperate measures to save his own live. He amputated his own arm trapped under the rock in the middle of a dessert, hundreds miles away from any sign of civilization. Today, despite having only one arm he is still doing things he always loved - climbs, cycles, hikes, etc....  The movie has just made me thinking what an extraordinary creatures we - humans - are. We so often do underestimate the power of our minds, that when only positively stimulated, can make us do extraordinary things. Things, that we would never have thought, we are capable of. Truelly inspiring story.