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Above: Is me in Salt Lake City, Utah when I was 19.
On the balcony with the roses that Garee gave me.
He's sweet like that.
As always he likes to surprise me with flowers!
What a wonderful man!
One of my Water colorings
This is me on any given day!
I went kite flying this last spring of 08; this was the first time since I was a young kid. It was a great day!
This is Garee and me at his family's house.
Minerva is our Calico and Double is our Tortishell cat.
Minerva & her mouse!
Double and her bags!
Double and I watching X-Files together as we do everyday!
Minerva and Double
The Cat Nap
My name is Forrest S. Waymire-Cooper, I'm 39 years old, a gay man living in Milwaukee Wisconsin with my partner Gary C. Waymire-Cooper and our two cats Minerva and Double.
Garee my partner has been with me through the great times and the times where he has been with me in some of my toughest moments.
While we have been together I became full blown AIDS, he was there by my side to support me and love me.
I was born in Provo, Utah on May 29th 1970 (yes that makes me a Gemini) and I was raised until I was 18 years old in Orem Utah. I also graduated high school in May on 1988 in Orem Utah.
In August of 1988 I had moved to Salt Lake City, Utah when I was the age of 18. I was 19 years old when I was diagnosed with HIV due to unsafe sex. I was diagnosed with HIV in August of 1989 in Salt Lake City, Utah. I lived in Salt Lake until 1996; I later moved to Las Vegas, Nevada and worked until 1999. I then was transferred to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where I continued to work in Mortgage and IT.
It wasn't until 2003 that I went "Full Blown AIDS" and finally had to start taking HIV medications (the cocktail). After a year and a half on medications I became "Undetectable" and shortly went off the medications; but not with out the side effects such as Toxic Peripheral Neuropathy. I went "Full Blown AIDS" again in December of 2006 and currently back on mediations. I'm also currently on disability due to the HIV disease and Neuropathy.
I stated in 1994 lecturing in Salt Lake City, Utah at the University of Utah and at various schools and classrooms such as "Death with Dignity" classes for people becoming Nurses. I enjoy lecturing on the awareness of HIV/AIDS and my personal experiences.
As a youngster I was licensed in Utah to propagate and raise wildfowl such as pheasants and quail. I enjoy the outdoors and was in boy scouts were I learned to love to repel off mountains; I also enjoy camping though I haven't been in year. Some things I enjoy in life are walks, mountain hiking, water coloring and my two cats and being with my partner Garee.
Halloween is my favorite holiday even though they say Halloween isn't a holiday.