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newfie11

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6. I remember when AIDS first surfaced

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Thu Feb 4, 2016, 09:24 AM

Feb 2016

I was a radiographer working in Petosky MI.
No one really knew much about it in the beginning. I remember doing a portable chest X-ray on this poor man in his room. I was gowned up with gloves and mask. Cassette also covered etc as no one knew everything about transmission.

Then the restrictions were eased to body fluids and patients were transported to the department for chest X-rays.

I have never felt so sorry for patients as these. Just walking past their stretcher I could feel the heat radiating from them.

Our file clerk was gay and we all loved him. He was moving to San Francisco and we tried like hell to talk him out of it.

I moved out of state soon after he left, hopefully he never caught it.

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Survivors of 1980s AIDS crisis reveal what happened to them [View all] Behind the Aegis Feb 2016 OP

Thanks for sharing this article. Betty Karlson Feb 2016 #1

Is this month being shared with black history month? xfundy Feb 2016 #2

"As the UK celebrates LGBT History Month" Behind the Aegis Feb 2016 #3

Thought so xfundy Feb 2016 #4

It is in the excerpt. Behind the Aegis Feb 2016 #5

I remember when AIDS first surfaced newfie11 Feb 2016 #6

RIP Corey Guillot, April 30th, 1988 Age 17. Amimnoch Feb 2016 #7

Thank you for sharing this story and your memory of Corey. Behind the Aegis Feb 2016 #8

Thank you for sharing this with us. Bohunk68 Feb 2016 #9

My sincere condolensces nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #12

It pains me to recall how parents and siblings of many AIDS patients reacted. closeupready Feb 2016 #10

I think I have shared this on DU before but... stevenleser Feb 2016 #11

Not a survivor, but a former medical provider nadinbrzezinski Mar 2016 #13