A Burden of Silence: between a daughter and her sixty-six year old
mother who was transfused with HIV positive blood during heart
bypass surgery. It will evoke emotions of faith, inspiration,
anger, and overwhelming love. The reader will also smile at the
funny, tender moments that Ms. Draper writes about in her story.
lonely journey through AIDS. Because her mother was not part of a
so-called AIDS risk group, she felt ignored, rejected, stigmatized,
and ashamed. For years, she suffered in excruciating silence. Nancy
has given her mother's story a voice. There are lessons for
everyone in this book-lessons about acceptance, compassion, and
forgiveness. -Ann Webster, Ph.D., director, HIV/AIDS Program,
Mind/Body Institute, Boston, MA dying mother. This story about a
grandmother who developed AIDS from a contaminated blood
transfusion, will inspire admiration for Ms. Draper's courage and
persistence. It will also inspire rage against the blood banks that
failed to screen blood donations adequately. -Ann Pozen, Psy.D.,
president, National Association for Victims of Transfusion-Acquired
AIDS, Inc., Bethesda, MD AIDS patients as human beings. We need to
provide them with compassion and empathy instead of treating them
as if they were dirty untouchable, unworthy people. In the end, I
believe it is people like Nancy's mother teaching us about love and
acceptance. Hopefully, her dying in silence will wake us up because
I don't want anyone else to suffer in silence like we have.'
Nancy's mother must be very proud of her and this account of three
years of fear, heartache, some good days and always deep love. Here
Nancy tells the rest of a story that she summarized in our March
1999 issue and wrote under a pseudonym. Thanks, Nancy
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