He's also an HIV-infected man facing an increasingly uncertain future.
Few experts believe that any more.
Because he began taking the drugs early in his battle against the disease, he fears that what's happening to him may soon be commonplace. The death rates are going to go up. But in private these days, Wood weeps about friends who have died and sometimes also for himself and his partner, Dave Cervenka, 47. Both learned they were infected in the mid-1980s. They've fared pretty well over the years, thanks to the arsenal of anti-HIV medications that allowed them to keep the virus at bay.