TiggerCast 110 : How My Life Has Been Shaped By AIDS

I would like to dedicate this podcast to Jimmy, Matthew and Steven as well as all the patients and friends who had their lives cut too short.

ShowNotes:

• Tigger is going to spontaneously combust someday
• Get yourself HIV tested
• “I’ll take a pill and be fine”
• Tigger has a brain freeze
• Growing up and coming out in the age of AIDS
• G.R.I.D. – Gay Related Immunodeficiency Disease
• 1980’s AIDS hysteria
• Tigger gives you an Immunology lesson
• HIV gave me a sense of purpose
• AZT did more harm than good
• Tigger’s Laboratory career begins – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
• How AIDS patients used to be treated
• Am I on the Moon? Space suits in a hospital?
• Seeing an HIV positive patient for the first time
• Blood & Body Fluid Precaution patients
• Nice people in a horrible situation
• Noticing human injustices
• Universal Precautions
• All of us need to feel we are loved
• Foothill AIDS Project
• How I met my dear friend Jimmy
• Dying without knowing Love
• HIV Hospice Nursing
• There still is not a cure for HIV/AIDS
• 25 million people have died
• Please watch Longtime Companion, And The Band Played On

Music played on today’s show:

1. Blue Monday (cover) – Flunk
2. Girl and the Sea – The Presets
3. The Last Song – Elton John

TiggerCast110.mp3