[freema]

And then there was the grief of losing a baby and the waiting....ten years and several pregnancies later...to know if I was clean.

http://www.paulmichaelglaser.org/egpaf.html

[teenyelliott]

No doubt, it is a terrible thing, and I can't imagine waiting like you did.

Just last year my mother had to have massive blood transfusions to save her life. I did not want her to get blood bank blood. I wanted to donate it myself, so that we would know it was okay. They wouldn't let me, because of all of the tests that would have to be done to see if it was compatible, and she needed it immediately.

Funny thing is, a hundred years ago there was no AIDS, so it wouldn't have been a worry. But a hundred years ago she would have died because they didn't do transfusions.

Are things really so bad nowadays, or do we just have different problems?