This is a gripping, first-person account from the paralyzing moment that Dorcas Walker found out that her mother, Margaret, was HIV positive until her death of AIDS four years later. One woman's experience who was willing to put her own life, and the life of her family, in danger to support the courageous fight of her mother against the dreaded, terminal disease of AIDS. Margaret, who was a registered nurse, now found her own life in danger from contracting the HIV virus from her husband, who had severe hemophilia and died of AIDS in 1985. This is a story of tragedy filled with pain and despair of an innocent person fighting for her life. Only her fierce love carried Dorcas through the last painful months as she personally took care of her mother, while watching her brilliant mind deteriorate until she became helpless like a child. Not only did Dorcas face the trauma of her mother's death by AIDS, but afterwards she was faced with the incredible pain and disillusionment as facts became known that the pharmaceutical companies her father depended on for a clotting factor had knowingly sold a contaminated factor.