HeyJaredEd Wolf
I now reside and write in Portland OR, after having lived in San Francisco for 44 years. I worked in the HIV/AIDS field from 1983 to 2022, and am currently writing a memoir about that experience. I’m at 600 pages and still going! Help!
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The Ward Without Walls (opens the original)
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The AIDS Ward at San Franiso General Hospital became known far beyond California. Politicians, dignitaries and news people from all over visited. Mother Theresa, Elizabeth Taylor, Jesse Jackson and C. Everett Koop, who was the Surgeon General, all came onto the ward, as did Dianne Feinstein, who was mayor of San Francisco. Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Leslie Stahl and a host of other broadcast personalities interviewed, photographed and reported from the unit as well.San Francisco’s queer communi
The Ski Mask (opens the original)
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When Bob was feeling strong enough, he’d go to the Thursday night Healing Circle in San Francisco, where there’d often be dozens of people with AIDS sharing their stories, their struggles, their tips for feeling better, eating better, sleeping better.One night he came home clearly shaken.“What is it?” I asked.He said he’d shared how tired he was of being ill, tired of worrying about what was going to happen next, tired of hearing about another death, and that sometimes he thought about just brin
We Were Here (opens the original)
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In 2010 I had the great honor of being included in David Weissman’s award-winning documentary We Were Here. The film tells the story of San Franciscans responding to the AIDS epidemic, especially in the early days, when successful treatments were just a faraway dream.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!37RD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbbaf13d8-24b9-4b45-b1e8-
Eldon and Myra (opens the original)
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There were times patients wanted to talk to a religious person and an AIDS Chaplaincy Program was created for that purpose. These were men and woman, some clergy, some lay people, many gay themselves, who were Catholic and Jewish and Episcopal and Baptist and Protestant and a host of other spiritual belief systems, all of whom had been through AIDS 101 classes, hospital in-services and other sensitivity trainings. Connie, who’d created the Chaplaincy, didn’t want her staff encouraging or support
The Morgue (opens the original)
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I’d promised Jay’s mom to accompany his body to the morgue, and followed Sammy, the attendant, down a hallway I’d never seen. We stepped into an elevator that was just big enough for the two of us and the gurney carrying Jay. The doors closed and when they opened again we were in the hospital’s shadowy basement.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!one4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com
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