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I found out that my dad was HIV positive in October of 1990 a few days before my wedding, which was on the 14th of that month. ... He said that they had given him Aids. Now, my dad was always a big hypochondriac, and always thought that he was dying of something… I remember growing up, and him always thinking he had cancer, or a tumor, or something terminal, so I didn’t know weather to believe him when he told me (We were both drunk having just left my bachelor’s party). And, since he didn’t actually seem sick, and I didn’t hear another word about it for years, I wrote it off to “Dad’s Hypochondria”. ... I contacted every Aids related organization I could find, and called his doctors almost every day (His doctors actually turned out to be excellent, and very “up” on whatever new treatment was being tried – experimental and otherwise). Still, just before Christmas 1994 (My wife, now one year old daughter, and myself were actually in our car on our way home for Christmas) Dad went to the hospital for a routine biopsy of a suspicious object in, or near, his lung. ...
If you asked anyone who knew my dad to describe him the first thing out of his or her mouth would probably be “handsome”. ... My dad lived more life than most people ever dream of, and though he died much to early I think that the only regret that he would have is that he didn’t get to meet all of his grandchildren – Certainly the only regret I have is that my kids never really got to know this great man. ...
After the first Aids Ride, I decided to continue riding in them for the others I knew who had this terrible disease. I knew two others who had died from Aids: Dave McGee, a dear friend and teacher, and David Vernon a friend. ... It was the WTC attacks that actually shook me up and reminded me of how I had let too many years go by without doing enough for others, for the world – It has been five years since my last Aids Ride, and that is too long…
This years Ride will be a special one because I won’t be doing it alone.
Approximate Word count = 1882
Approximate Pages = 7.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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