In the spirit of "Pay it Forward", Christopher and I have already volunteered to assist in any way we can with some terrific new ideas to help the "Elton John Foundation" and the "Katzenberg AIDS Foundation" spread new treatment ideas to the entire country.
We live in the Palm Springs area and have, what Christopher, my team and I, consider to be the best AIDS/HIV care facilities in the entire world at the Desert AIDS Project. We are so fortunate in this situation with Remote Neural Monitoring and Intentional infection of HIV and other STD's that have come along with that we have access to Earl Greenberg's dream of a top notch HIV/AIDS care facility in our area. Basically all the newest treatments, the best doctors and physician's assistants, nurses, volunteers, pharmacy and services like dental and housing are met by our facility. It is an amazing place that Laurie, "hates". In fact, Laurie has tried for years, allegedly, to steal from them...have their employees look like criminals...and to steer us away from this clinic.
With the work that my team is now doing, we hope that we will be able to reach out to the community with the help of the Palm Springs Police Department to find as many victims of this horrible crime as we can...and have them treated. Nobody should have poor access to care that can literally save their lives...I like to call it the "Elton John Effect". Ryan White was an amazing kid whom lived and passed away during the time of my infection...I've survived because of the efforts of people like Bette Midler, the Katzenbergs, E.J. and so many others that donated to places like this facility and research. I think it is time now that the people that were fortunate enough to benefit from this care...take that message to as many places as we can.
Everyone should have a Desert AIDS like program for services or at least some place that they can go, near them, where someone is looking out for them the way the D.A.P. looks out for my team and so many other victims of this crime.
It is unclear how many of the patients there have been exposed to the Blue and Green Widow virus strain of HIV...but it could very well be a large percentage....that's scary to think that over the past 28 years two people could have caused such an epidemic....it's really clear that other STD's have also risen in our area...exponentially higher than other areas with similar populations.
There will be some time before this project goes into movie and book production...and Christopher and I volunteer to help Jeffrey and Marilyn do everything we can to bring their message of hope to as many doctors and P.A.'s as we can find. It's the "Elton John Effect" of loving one another...long enough to survive this horrible disease.
Thanks also to Bette...Divinely inspirational from the first time I ever saw her pack a long stemmed red rose into a bag of food for a person home bound with AIDS...I can remember being diagnosed as HIV positive...without having had any sex or needles...in 1987 and not knowing what happened...my mom was there and I listened to "My Mother's Eyes" by Bette until I cried myself better. What an inspiration....thanks.
