‘A bold and honest account, Cindy Pivacic shares her story about how she came to contract HIV & AIDS and how she responded to it. Not only is she living healthy years later, but her vibrant and energetic character has been poured into helping others experiencing the same situation. Cindy presents talks and workshops on living positively with HIV & AIDS and those, with this book and her online presence, gives her the opportunity to create awareness, give testimony concerning the HIV & AIDS issue, and to assist in de-stigmatising this secret killer’. ~Charlotte Kemp~

2. ‘THE DEADLY
SEDUCER’
by
Cindy Pivacic
Synopsis
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#TheDeadlySeducer

3. • Create awareness around HIV & AIDS
• Give access to Q & A’s
• Let people know it is not a ‘Death Sentence’
• Give Hope and Courage
• Remove the Stigma
• Be available to others for Support
• A means to sustain the Counselling Centre & Projects
Why the book....
The objective of this book is to:

4. ContentsContents
• AID MY JOURNEY V
• PREFACE IX
• 1. FIRST STEPS 1
• 2. MIDDLE OF THE ROAD 5
• 3. BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE 9
• 4. BABY BLUES 13
• 5. WRONG TURN 17
• 6. CRASH LANDING AND BURN 19
• 7. BLOOD AND THUNDER 21
• 8. LYING LOW 25
• 9. LIFE’S A BEACH 29
• 10. SNORING WITH GABRIEL 33
• 11. BUMPY ROAD 37
• 12. THE FAST LANE 47
• 13. DETOUR 51
• 14. BREAKING JAUNT 59
• 15. TURNING WHEEL 65
• 16. COMING OUT 2010 67
• 17. PILE UP 71
• 18. THE WAY FORWARD 75
• FAQ'S 79
• INSPIRATION 93
• RECIPES 95
• CHOP CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMEN 105
• CONTACT DETAILS 107

5. ‘The Deadly Seducer‘ Author - Cindy Pivacic
Back Cover
by
Charlotte Kemp
• ‘A bold and honest account, Cindy Pivacic shares her story about how she
came to contract HIV & AIDS and how she responded to it.
• Not only is she living healthy years later, but her vibrant and energetic
character has been poured into helping others experiencing the same
situation.
• Cindy presents talks and workshops on living positively with HIV & AIDS
and those, with this book and her online presence, gives her the
opportunity to create awareness, give testimony concerning the HIV &
AIDS issue, and to assist in de-stigmatising this secret killer’.
Many of the names have been changed to protect identities.

6. It is all about you, if you can live with yourself, stuff
everyone else!
• I understand fully that it is a serious, terminal disease but it is
manageable, so try to keep your sense of humour and “Deal With
It”, sounds simple, but for some it will not be, that is why I would like
to share the more positive side of my experience. It is not some,
feel-sorry-for-me memoir or a sad biography - I usually pick up a
biography, read the back, say “oh hell no” and put it right back on
the shelf.
• This is just telling it how it is and how I had to deal with “IT”. I have
had the most exciting life possible, no regrets. No one is
untouchable, although some people I have met have the strangest
ideas about “IT”. This can affect anyone, directly or indirectly, and
eventually someone else’s situation will affect you.

7. • Forty six year old, Caucasian woman, so much
for Gay and Black stereotype, HIV and AIDS is
my disease!
• A brief look at a ‘normal’ youth spent in Namibia
then going to a boarding school as there were
no high schools in Oranjemund to my fathers
transfer to Kimberley and the teen years of
growing up and testing the waters of what
teenagers get up to along with their peers. I
come from a very healthy well balanced
background which goes to show everyone is
vulnerable no matter your standard of living.

8. • My first and second marriages were disasters for
very different reasons; the first fortunately
brought me two wonderful hard earned children
but due to the lack of affection from my husband
they had to be meticulously planned.
• The second husband was a violent individual
and totally opposite of my first husband the
physical side was passionate entwined with both
violent abuse and sexual ardour.

9. • Deciding to move from the Free State to
KwaZulu Natal seemed like the best thing at the
time in order to remove myself from my second
husbands family and then in time from him,
unknowingly setting myself up for an even worse
situation.
• Being the trusting person I am totally misled into
a relationship with someone fourteen years my
junior resulting in a lifelong deadly disease.

10. • Living with the HI virus and acquired diseases
related to HIV & AIDS since 2004, the lengthy
detailed treatments are shared in the hope that it
will create awareness to the public at large and
show that acquiring the virus does not have to
mean a death sentence.
• We are all going to die, eventually; it is just up to
each one of us how you are going to live in-
between, disease or no disease!

11. • With support, yes, from family and friends
believe it or not it has helped somewhat in
removing the stigma and discrimination attached
to the disease and with proper assistance and
support the stigma can be overcome.
• By pointing people in the right direction and
advising what to do, where to go, when and how
to do it will hopefully prolong their life by
managing their disease.

12. • The treatment takes the reader through the
various stages of acquired diseases that
affected me and by doing this give people hope
that acquiring diseases such as Strokes,
Pneumonia, Shingles, TB Meningitis and Cancer
(Angioimmunoblasticlymphadenopathy) will
show them that living a healthy lifestyle can and
does work.
• Going onto ARVs need not be a nightmare if
taken correctly; they will enhance your life.

13. • The lack of support within the suburbs is
frightening and is addressed with contact details
to counselling, testing and support group
facilities. Add to this some tried and tested,
easy, healthy recipes, the first thing that always
gets asked is ‘So, what do you eat?’
necessitated this inclusion.
• The thirty-six FAQ are easy to understand and
an integral part of creating awareness and giving
information to the still unacquainted people of
South Africa in a manner that encourages them
to want to read and find out more about this
disease.

14. Chapter excerpts……1, 7, 10 and 17
1. First Steps1. First Steps
• Drifting in and out of consciousness, I had no idea how ill I was. I was in a
government hospital, but only vaguely aware of my surroundings. I now
believe that I was too sick to realise that I was probably at the lowest point
of my life, alone and confused…….
7. Blood and Thunder7. Blood and Thunder
• I transferred whatever anger or shock I may have felt for Brad entirely into
my fury at the phlebotomist. Brad was still in hospital and I focused on how I
could go about having her reprimanded…….
10. Snoring with Gabriel10. Snoring with Gabriel
• During the night, I woke to find an apparition at the foot of my bed not close
enough to frighten me and far enough back to see a large part of the
‘display’. Those who know me know I am not an imaginative or fanciful
type……….
17. Pile Up17. Pile Up
• The New Year of 2012 brought an unexpected rush of happenings. I
returned from visiting my Mother in Port Elizabeth on the 11th
January 2012.
The Carte Blanche team phoned and set up filming by the………

15. It boils down to ADAPT or
DIE
I chose to adapt!

16. Social Media and Video/TV links
• Book https://www.facebook.com/TheDeadlySeducer
• Book website short link http://wp.me/p1hie1-lN
• Book AUDIO Intro http://youtu.be/M0AWlFNWHHA
• Carte Blanche http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msZSj_lNTME
• HIVenture Tour de Life
https://www.facebook.com/HIVentureTourdeLife
• FNB #YouCanHelp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLLLl0jG1Sg
• SABC 1 Stigma & Denial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1Y-kRa-dYo

17. AID My Journey-Support
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P.O. Box: 763 Pinetown, 3600
Email: cindy@cindypivacic.co.za
www.cindypivacic.co.za
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