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Thank you for having this event. Is there a podcast, or dvd, or streaming video available for this event. Thanks
Stephen Puibello aka Bipolarbear.
"Spencer RIP, also know that your activism continues this Thur. as our community rally again but this time on improving mental health of AIDS survivors. I know depression very well as I dual diagnosed HIV & Bipolar.
God Bless you for this great work that must be done. I wish I could have known Spencer -
Spencer worked hard for as long as he could, but the disease ravages our cognitive ablities in ways no one seems to get. I have been living with it for 30 years, and I sense the ebbing of my own will to keep fighting. As finances get squeezed, and the brain slows to a slow thought every other hour, we are left to wait for the summons to the next level of being, without our failing bodies to hold us back. Optimism eventually gives way to a tired, mournful gaze into the night, remembering...
Your piece is gorgeous and haunting and as relevant as Spencer's work itself. He was a man sounding the alarm about issues we weren't yet ready to face. I want very much to know how the Medius event went and how I can help going forward.
Thank you for this wonderful article. I am a long term survivor, and made it through the plague and now part of "the walking dead". Most, if not all my peers have passed. I wish I could attend your meeting, but I am too far away. I wish you all well. Thank you
to Mark from NYC, you're comparing apples to oranges though. Starting with AZT monotherapy and taking meds for 20+ years (often vile-tasting liquids meds in the start reformulated through the years, and lots of meds like 28-32 pills/tblspns throughout a day on crazy schedules, with lots of side effects) is vastly different from taking the improved better-scheduled meds of the last decade. Trust me, if you had to live thru the 1st 30 yrs of this epidemic with AIDS, the meds play an important role
Trey Rucker
I can't believe that Spencer is dead. I feel so badly about his death. I can't stop thinking about it. We had been FB friends for years, but somehow, the knowledge of his passing slipped through the cyber cracks. I have personal messages from him, asking if I knew of affordable places to live in NY because he knew, I too, was planning to move to NY at the same time as he was. And the saddest part is that we ended up living one neighborhood apart. He lived in Inwood and I lived in Hudson Heights
May 28, 2014 • Houston