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Podcast: Rock Your Shine: After you’ve been cracked wide open
Episode: 096: Silent Battles: Navigating Life with a Father's HIV and AIDS with Melanie Brooks
Description: Welcome to Rock Your Shine: After you’ve been cracked wide open. On this show, I sit down with people from all over the world to hear their transformational stories on their deep grief and loss journeys. In this deeply personal and emotional episode, we embark on a journey with Melanie as she copes with her surgeon father’s terminal disease and subsequent death. After receiving a blood transfusion with tainted blood during open-heart surgery in 1985, he learned he was HIV positive. We delve into the profound impact of her father's diagnosis at a time when HIV was h...