Elisabeth Moore mustnt consider that Guardian readers have forgotten her son Oscar (Letters,23 April). I read his articles, which he wrote at a time when friends, and friends of friends,were going through the same horrors. He made me laugh and cry, and his courage in writing approximately what he was going through was sometimes quite overwhelming. I bought the book and read it all again, and I still expend extracts from it when I teach approximately vision loss and what it does to people,approximately the scare and the darkness. He’s still read, and he’s known through his writing by groups of nurses who aren’t faded enough to remember those times otherwise. He’s still educating, or still admired and still remembered.
Janet Marsden
Professor of ophthalmology and emergency care,Manchester Metropolitan University• I would like to let Elisabeth Moore know that the first person I thought of on reading Suzanne Moore’s article approximately Aids was her son Oscar. I only knew him from his PWA (Person With Aids) column, yet over the past 20 years he has been the person I consider approximately when reading approximately medical advances in treating people with HIV and Aids. Oscar’s weekly unflinching coverage of his illnesses and suffering, and including that of losing his sight,touched me so deeply that on hearing of the remarkable change in circumstances of people now living healthy lives with HIV I consider of him and so wish it had come in time for him, and so many others. This Guardian reader has not forgotten him either.
Janet Pontin[br]GlasgowContinue reading...
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