10th Grade Summer Reading #4
11 years ago
Monday, April 12, 2010
It Happened to Nancy
It is now Nancy's sixteenth birthday and she keeps feeling really sick for about two months she has been feeling very ill but hasn't said anything to her mother. After Nancy can't take the pain anymore she finally tells her mom and her mom takes her to the hospital and the doctor and nurses run tests to see what is causing her to feel like this. The doctor finally comes in and tells Nancy and her mother that Nancy is infected with the HIV-virus. Nancy is of course scared she doesn't want to die but then she is also scared about spreading it to other people. Nancy's friend El is throwing a birthday party for Nancy's sweet sixteen and invites everybody from school to come, Nancy though is just excited about Lew coming because he and her now are more than just friends. After the party everyone went to the movies and while watching the movie Nancy peed herself and she didn't want anyone to know so she got up quick and ran out and got a cab to take her home. Nancy couldn't face going back to school after have doing this so she moved to Arizona for a little to love with her dad. While living there Nancy keeps feeling herself get worse then better but everyday is a new feeling. Nancy sees that she is bleeding from her butt so she immediately calls her doctor and he tells her to come in that morning. While at the appointment Nancy is told that her having HIV has caused her to get a rectal ulcer and that the HIV-virus progressed so quickly that she now has AIDS. After a couple months in Arizona Nancy wants to move back with her mom and friends because she misses them so much. But then she decides not to because it was just to embarrassing so her mom flies to Arizona and calls Nancy's Aunt Thelma to see if Nancy can live there for a little while. I wonder how long it takes before Nancy dies because it has only taken barley a year for the HIV-virus to turn into AIDS and because she moving so fast.
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Has Nancy had any other contact with Collin. If so does she tell him about here having HIV? Who all has she told about the HIV?
ReplyDeleteDid she get the HIV from collin, if so do you think he knows that he has it?
ReplyDelete-Ivy
Megan:
ReplyDeleteNo Nancy has no had any other contact with Collin. And the only people who know about Nancy having AIDS is her close family and her friends and of course the police and doctors.
Ivy:
ReplyDeleteYes Nancy did get AIDS from Collin and it does not say in the book if Collin knows he has HIV or not.
Do you think Nancy will ever be reunited with any of her friends? This is a really sad story. I wonder why some people live for years with HIV/AIDS, but others die quickly?
ReplyDeleteMs. Shank:
ReplyDeleteI think she will be reunited with some of her friends because her friend El went and visited her in Airzona. And yea i wonder the same thing when i was reading and it said she already progressed to AIDS, i was like wow that seemed like just two weeks since she found out she had HIV.