Forrest Waymire-Cooper
(414) 915-6521
HIV/AIDS Awareness
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My name is Forrest Waymire-Cooper
I speak publicly on HIV/AIDS
Awareness in schools and educational
environments. I speak of my personal
experiences, trials, and accomplishments
of living with HIV/AIDS.
My name is Forrest S. Waymire-Cooper; I was
born on May 29th 1970, and I’m currently
living in Milwaukee Wisconsin with my partner
Gary C. Waymire-Cooper and our two cats
Double and Minerva.
I was born in Provo, Utah and raised in Orem,
Utah until I was 18 years old; were I
Graduated high school in May of 1988. In August of 1988 I relocated to Salt Lake City, Utah and in
August of 1989 I was diagnosed having the HIV virus.
I lived in Salt Lake until 1996; I later moved
to Las Vegas, Nevada and worked until 1999.
Later in that year, I moved to Milwaukee,
Wisconsin where I continued to work in
Mortgage and IT. I have worked in IT and the
Mortgage fields for the last 11 years.
I went full blown AIDS in the winter of 2003
with a viral load of over 750,000 copies of the
AIDS virus and a CD4 count of 27 which is next to death.
After taking the HIV/AIDS medications for a
little over a year I had stopped for personal
reasons including developing Toxic Peripheral
Neuropathy which is a painful nerve disease
form the HIV/AIDS medications.
This would be the first time I have taken
HIV/AIDS medications since 1989 when at
that time they had little knowledge about the
disease or the medications to treat the HIV/AIDS
virus. They prescribed me a medication named AZT which they didn’t know how to prescribe so they would over dose you on it causing more side effects.
In December of 2006 I went back to a status
of full blown AIDS and currently on disability
and back on HIV/AIDS medications.
