Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.
I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.
The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story.
Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.
Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.