Originally posted at Facebook, for reasons I can not yet explain.

Getting screened for STIs is a LOT more fun when you do it with your partners. I’m so used to that conversation being so routine: 

“When was your last screening?”
“Six months ago.”
“And how many partners have you had since then?”
“One.”
“And do they have any other partners?”
“No.” 

But this time my answers were very different:

“When was your last screening?”
“A year and a half ago.”
“And how many partners have you had since then?”
“Uh…*mentally counting*….”
“Okay, how about just the last 30 days.”
“Uhm. Three.”
“And do they have any other partners?”
“*nods*”
“Are any of them sex workers?”
“Yes.” (And then we had a conversation about sex work.)
“And what are you going to do once you get your results?”
“Tell my partners.”
“Great; how soon can you do that?”
“Well, two of them are right outside….”
“Oh! It’s wonderful you’re all getting tested together.”
“Well, yeah…we all suddenly had a lot of reasons to get updated screening results.”

I’m waiting on the results of the syphilis test, but everything else came back negative, happily.

(And on a meta-note: no, I’m not sure why the fuck I’m posting this to Facebook, but I figure it’s time to Do Something Different in my life, so here we go.)

Update July 10: Negative on the syphilis test, too.