Imaberrated. Hope you are doing fine my friend. I haven’t read from you recently A great virtual hung.

Wow, seems they are both famous, him in the Coast Guard and her for being only one of four licensed, black women engineers for ships. I think you are right about Sharon, that she would have let you die. I’ve had brief encounters with her and have read what others have written about her. So glad you did come out of all this OK.

When I was in the final stages of HIV/AIDS I lost over 60 pounds in 3 months. I was starting to even look like an immate at Auschwitz. Fortunately I started out a bit overweight so after loosing 60 pounds I was actually complemented for my “good health” by a former junior named Johnathan Hattenbach. He wanted to know what I was doing in LA and I told him that I was there to see a doctor. He asked me what the prognosis was and I said: DEATH.

The wife that saved me is named Alison Lorraine Williams. Her father, Edward R. Williams is famous as the 1st black Captain in the United States Coast Guard.

I am interested in writing a book. I just to get organized enough to do so. I have been busy finding a place to stay. I am currently in a motel until I find a more long range solution.

No!
Sharron was my 1st wife.
My second wife I married in 1999 was one of 4 licenced, black, women Chief Engineers in the U.S.
She is the one that saved me..After the ship told her to put me in a hospice to die in December 2002, she called her sister who was a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital.They also happened to have the longest operating HIV/AIDS clinic in the world. She advised my wife to take me to UCSD hospital.By then I had dementia and sometimes did not recognize her. Had my wife taken me to the hospice, I was in no condition to stop her.
Had I still been married to Sharron, I believe that she would have taken me to the hospice to die.

Bill Straass, was the SO wife who saved you Sharon Webber?

One last thing about the sleep apnea. After using a CPAP. machine there is no snoring nor the fatigue from waking up every 10 seconds.
On day in an older motel I could not use the machine because the plug had 3 prongs and the motel only had 2.
When I woke up I could not move anything and was barely conscious. I realized that my brain was starved for oxygen. I willed myself to breathe more deeply and eventually came out of it. I had been told by a public doctor on the ship that ” One of these days you are going to wake up dead”. I asked him how I was going to wake up if I was dead. He could not explain that one.

In Feb 1996 an RTC Mission ame to the ship to check the staff’s Quals.
They had me in their sights because of my sleep apnea.
Then a messenger came to me and said that since I was no longer married to Sharron (current COFSSO) (our divorce had just come through)
the sleep apnea did not matter and was no longer a out-qual. So their main cuncern is that my snoring was driving Sharron insane
( though I do not think we were living together

then) so I understand
The greatest good for the greatest number required that they offload their most Senior Repair person in order to give a reprieve to those poor dub bastards who had their faces ripped daily by Sharron. It is just that they could have sent me to a doctor and handled my sleep apnea. Certainly my heart would be in better shape now if they did. However, I could also easily been dead so I am happy with what I have.

Hello Bill….

If you aren’t interested or ready to write your OWN book….I hope some day, some way, some how someone who writes a book put YOU in one of the chapters….you have so much to say.

Better yet…another Aftermath Series, although that doesn’t seem likely anymore.