Working on a Miracle - Softcover

A neuropathologist recounts his struggle against AIDS, which he contracted from a patient during a routine autopsy, a struggle that involved his testing new drug combinations and therapeutic innovations on himself and support from other heroic AIDS patients. Reprint.

ohnson had devoted his life to neuropathology, the detailed laboratory investigation of nervous system diseases. During a routine brain autopsy of an AIDS victim, suddenly, with one slip of the scalpel, he went from doctor to patient, a patient battling for his life against HIV. Ever the researcher, he began to chronicle his illness, and within a year it appeared he was a "rapid progressor," one of the unlucky minority who swiftly advance towards AIDS.
In a race against time, Johnson began searching for treatments, ferreting out every new study that could offer hope. Following the discoveries of the top AIDS researchers in the country, he made himself a guinea pig experimenting with an aggressive treatment regimen combining different kinds of drugs(the few antivirals available at the time and the immune-system-boosting, but potentially toxic cancer treatment IL-2.
Soon--amazingly--HIV could no longer be isolated in his blood even by the m