Kroeger's "AIDS And The Girl Next Door"

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state of a shock: “My hands and feet went ice cold. I thought I would lose control of my bowels. I stood up and started pacing like an animal in a cage, looking out the window.”
Immediately other thoughts entered her mind, it can’t be happening. It must be some careless mistake made by irresponsible lab-staff. Disbelief in the reality and denial of what is happening give a poor woman hope, and the test is repeated twice, having the same devastating results. The deadly disease is already a fact, but still does not make sense, being both scary and unreal. The shame comes on surface: “I kept focusing on shame. There is so much shame attached to this illness.” And here’s why. The HIV is most commonly passed during sexual contact and intravenous drug use. Society associates AIDS with homosexuals, drug edicts and heterosexuals who often change their sex partners. The attitude toward HIV-infected is far from accepting. The knowledge of others about her disease would probably result in ...

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