APRIL UPDATE

Posting to say that I’m temporarily suspending billing for paid subscriptions on this site. Many of you have been kind enough to support my work financially but I feel right now that you aren’t getting “value for money,” as they say in the UK. I work as a simulated patient – before you ask, yes, it’s a terrific job – at the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, and we’re in one of our busiest seasons as another semester comes to a close and we test out the next generation of your doctors and nurses. I haven’t been able to write much – rather, I haven’t been able to publish much, and I don’t feel right receiving payment for silence.

The pieces I’ve posted here over the last few years – many of them, not all – I hope to turn into a book, a “memoir,” I suppose, of the worst days of the AIDS crisis and my life at that time. This will require a lot of editing; also, an ending of some kind. So far I’ve brought the narrative to the point of my collapse and near-death in 1994. Since, obviously, I survived that, I need to find a way to round out the story. This I hope to accomplish over the summer and will be back posting here, D.V., as soon as I can.

All postings on the site are still available to everyone. Thank you all so much for being readers.