![]() The men couldn’t keep any food down except milkshakes from McDonald’s, so the nurses would pick up shakes on the way to work. She told me about the endless diarrhea that nurses had to deal with, how they would try to clean up patients when their friends or parents came to visit. The nurse who has been patiently sitting with me and helping me, Trish Sullivan, used to be an AIDS nurse at NYU Langone, known at the time as NYU Medical Center, in the early days of the epidemic. I have been struggling with a serious genetic disease, caused by a Janus kinase 2 gene mutation, for a decade, and my veins have become scarred after two years of phlebotomies, given every five weeks. From Let the Record Show, a history of ACT UP New York, which was published last month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ![]()
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