Ana Rodriguez was 7 years old and tethered to an IV the first time I met her.
"I have special blood," she told me in 1995. "It needs extra care."
She was bubbly and blissfully unaware of why she needed treatment at Cleveland's MetroHealth Hospital and regularly visited the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., for additional treatment.
There was a lot that Ana didn't know back then.
She had to avoid her classmates if she fell and start ...
Posted by: Paul M. Petkovsek
Comment: #2
Thu May 21, 2009 4:16 PM
It is a shame that people have to keep any disease secret, but just let someone with HIV or AIDS (or someone who is related to someone with HIV or AIDS) come into the room and see how the ignorant react. Ignorance is the biggest problem because if those who don't know would find out, they would learn that it is not so easy to pass the virus and that not all people with HIV and AIDS are punished by God for doing bad things. The difference between ignorance and stupid is that ignorance can be fixed, stupid of forever.
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