Part 2
That's when I found out about poz.com and long term survivors and started a few threads but the one that I ended writing was When it rains it pours.It was a way for me to deal with the stress and I ran with it.I wrote many things and was under the assumption that I made many friends.Then someone posted something about AM Gathering had no idea what this was.So I asked about it and was told that it stood for AIDS MEDS GATHERING and they were meeting in Boston Mass.Checked out their web page on it.I posted That I would love to go but frankly could not afford it.Then One of what I thought was a friend sent me a message that there was a Grant for people like me so I contacted them.They asked what I would need help with I told them I would need help with Transportation and the Hotel.So they replied what Airline I replied no Airline because I don,t fly so I told them I would rather take a Greyhound Bus and they said no problem.Then since there were more than a few people that were being help that the Hotel would be four nights for each person.Then I was talking to my next door neighbor suggested the Amtrak Train would get there sooner.So I contact the Grant Committee and they replied I would have to catch the Train in New Orleans at 7am on August 3 2009 I replied no problem.Next message was do I need assistance with Greyhound Bus Ticket and Hotel for the night in New Orleans I said I had that covered because I take the 2:00 am bus from Lafayette to New Orleans and get there around 5:30am catch the train at 7:00am and sleep on the way to Boston.I asked them what did I have to do and was this April 2009 they said just show up in New Orleans to catch the train.Then I started getting messages from the grant committee that they needed a confirmation number for the bus ticket.I did not know that they did not make the reservations for the train.I had planned on taking the bus but a friend said he would not mind bringing me to New Orleans so It would save me some money.They needed the confirmation number so I was dumb founded so I waited till July 3 before I bought a ticket because the needed the number so that was $36.50 non refundable ticket for certain dates.That was money I had not intended on spending.OK sent the number and the next day they sent a message that the price of the train ticket had went up $200.00 dollars.I did not understand I was confused?

My name is Dwayne Allen Bourque I have been positive for 22 years but most likely 26/27 years.I have had to fight most of my life and I normally back down or let it go.But I am not backing down anymore I don,t like being ripped off and as you will see and read as the story unfolds it was not a huge amount of money it was $36.50 which does not sound like much but when on a fix income it is huge.Let me start one year ago.My Aunt stayed with us for the last six months of her life loved her and my grandmother like mothers because my mom lived 50 miles away saw her at my 4th birthday party and not again until a week of my 16th birthday with just a greyhound bus ticket and a old address took off from Lafayette LA to Baton Rouge found the number and met my Mom,s side of the family and have not seen her since I was 17 and now I am 47.I know that this does not seem like part of the story but rest assured it does have some bearing on the events of 2009.
My Aunts health started to get worse so the family decided to move her to a nursing home and she died less than 2 weeks later.This happened on a Thursday my family did not inform me till Sunday at 5pm that they forgot.They were burying her at 9am the next morning.Let me tell you I was none to happy.So decided to contacted my younger brother since I was no longer on speaking terms with my Dads side of the family.I have had the same number for 20 somewhat years to my Moms.Called the phone you are dialing has been disconnected was stunned.I had no other phone numbers.I had just got a computer so I tried that all the name of my family.But as with some websites like that have to pay.But something was really wrong ever time I searched my younger brothers name it came up like a Obituary.I suffer from Anxiety and Depression so I am about to flip out.Had a new myspace account so I tried my older brothers name and found his myspace page sent many messages for a week was set to Private one got though on Sunday and sent him a message with my email and phone number.Monday morning got a call from him and he told me that Donald thats my younger brother died from complications from AIDS now I knew Donald was Hiv+ but this news floored me and to make matters worse to find out he died 6 years ago.They tried the numbers they had and came to where we lived we were in same trailer park different lot.So they thought that I had died also so my Mom grieved for to sons.