People in their final stage of AIDS with no ART medication are suffering from dementia that comes from brain damage caused by the virus in the brain. There will be some who go blind from damage to the optic nerve.
They will suffer from nightmares in which the bedroom is full of evil spirits and murderers seeking to kill. This will bring terror to the person and awaken the family in fear.
Linda suffered from fear of highlanders planning to kill her. She believed an old woman from Samurai sat in a tree outside the house disguised as a black bird waiting to kill her. Linda smoked cigarettes secretly when I went to work.
Zila came to my house when 3 Angels Care had no vacancies. She used to go through my pockets for money to buy ...... cigarettes.
She reported that a gang of raskols had broken into her room to attack her but she was saved by Michael Somare who arrived at the window in a helicopter. She died six weeks later unable to breathe.
Damon Courtenay son of the famous author had his story in a book April Fools Day. He was AIDS infected from haemophilia and died in 1993 before the ART medication was available.
He had various delusions. He believed he was a famous doctor who had discovered a cure for HIV/AIDS and believed he was being pursued by the CIA to kill him. He believed that all doctors and nurses were CIA agents and refused to go to hospitals.
I was once in hospital ICU at Port Moresby General Hospital treated for minor heart attack. One night I awoke to find the ceiling painted like a pharoah's tomb with crocodiles reaching down to eat me. My first hallucination.
I was once in hospital ICU at Port Moresby General Hospital treated for minor heart attack. One night I awoke to find the ceiling painted like a pharoah's tomb with crocodiles reaching down to eat me. My first hallucination.
The delusions in final AIDS will frighten the family as the person screams in fear in the middle of the night.
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