Documentary Airs on the TODAY Show
Let’s Kick ASS, founder Tez Anderson has been living with HIV since 1983 and is helping other long-term survivors grappling with lives they once thought would be cut short.
After he was diagnosed with HIV, doctors told him that he had only two years to live. He was 26, and had just moved to San Francisco.
“I worked on dying,’’ Anderson told TODAY. “I was going to be the best dying guy in the world. I bought books on it and did meditation. I kept planning to die well for so long that I didn’t live well.”
One thing Anderson, 59, never considered was what life would be like if he actually survived to live a long life.
“I had no plan for growing old,’’ he said. “Being an old man with HIV, that scared the hell out of me. I’d been told I would be dead in two years, and dead people don’t need degrees or retirement accounts.”
Read the rest of the TODAY Show Article here: https://www.today.com/news/what-it-s-live-hiv-survivor-shares-his-story-t137013
