As I started out on my mission to gather donations for my AIDS walk in Lansing Michigan I was full of enthusiam for what would seemily be a very easy endevor.

Considering I do work at a hospital where the business is medical health care I thought this should be a breeze.  However I was very surprised to quickly learn not all the medical staff felt the same way.

For starters, there was an incident where I got into a confrontational discussion with a young man who wondered why he should give to a cause where people has just simply made the "wrong choices" - that God had given AIDS to them in the first place.

WHAT?

What you might ask?  Are you sure Mae?

Yep, I thought the exact same thing, but there it was AND he said this in front of a group of people. I did try to contain my anger; let it go, however there are just come thing you can't excuse, especially something like that.

I reminded him that God is loving one another, that being one of his first commandments and to go along with that is also compassion - we are NOT to judge, least ye be judged and I don't know about any of you -

I DEFINATELY DON'T WANT TO BE JUDGED - because I know I've sinned many times over; after all it's human nature and none of us is either God nor Jesus.

So anyway to make a long story short - this young man finally did apologize and after that saw things in a whole different light, and I also learned not to get so angry, but to calmly listen and then give my opinion, after all it's not just about me, but I am representing WolfLair Pediatric AIDS.

So -

Then, within my own department I found many of the individuals that are currently employeed on the first shift were ok until I mentioned the walk was for AIDS.  Then things changed and they suddenly didn't want to.

Now please don't get me wrong - some have been generous about giving, which is fantastic, but still lingering thoughts of negetivity sat in my  mind asI began to reflect about this delimma.

Nurses and Patient Care Assistance's alike gave without a second thought, and some even told me they themselves had lost a family member do to AIDS or knew of someone who was infected and was being treated unfairly because of his/her status.

This bothers me in away which even I can't fully explain - something I actually thought was an old concept is still, very much alive and among us,  just like the predjuice against skin color, so is it with AIDS.

The public needs to be educated - stero-typing is just plain wrong - we as a nation should ban together and help, to be more compassionate, more loving and giving of not just in donations, but I'm talking about volunteering; getting knee deep in giving back.

Wouldn't that be better than being negetive all the time?  Maliciously attacking a group because they are different or spreading gossip about something / someone instead of promoting it in a positive and loving, unjudging manner?

Try to look for the good in all things - NOT the ugly.

My mission has increased in helping to promot a very positive awareness, more than ever about AIDS -

We need to know the truth, not the lies and not to fall victum to the negetive publicity and decite which so likely happens with groups of uneducated people get together.

Tell me this,

How do you deal with the AIDS issue? Are you currently involved with helping out the cause or is this one of the many issues that sit on the back burner of your "To Do List"?

Email me your opinion - Let's talk about it!!

By the way;

My goal was to attain at least $300.00, now todate we've raised $210.00 isn't that great?

If you'd like to view my son's donation page along with mine you can follow the link below - come on check us out!!