Day 4755 Friday August 26th, 2011

I'm writing my first blog after just now filling out my profile's biography and I'm going for the same creepy feeling I think that biography gives off. I'm just not a creepy guy, lol. After waking up from being comatose for a month I spent the next year trying to understand daily life and learned what emotions were. I worked for my aunt so I'd have a little income the end of that year but the beginning of '99 I decided to join the U.S. NAVY and upon taking their tests joined to become a nuclear engineer who would manage the power used to run and operate aircraft carriers and submarines. I made it 7 weeks through basic training before emotions became something I began to feel for the first time and didn't understand what they were or how to control them. When you're crying hard for hours and have no reason why petty officers and chiefs ask questions. I was given a medical discharge and that was a bit confusing, but I did know one thing; I was totally in the way of the others in my division because I went from being a leader to being a casualty of war, lol. I spent 6am to 9pm at the Chicago/O'hare airport waiting on a flight back home, and got here about 3am the next morning. I was like an innocent child at this point, and how I'd remained this way for so long I don't know. It lasted until June 26th, 1999.

The navy got me in shape, 6'1 and 195lbs, and still following the same daily routine I'd learned while in training. I couldn't sleep that night, all I had in my head was fall in love, get married, and have kids. I didn't know what the hell any of that meant. 19yrs old and not understanding my thoughts or my body's hormones I just wanted to dance, sing, and be around other people. That's something I knew would distract my thoughts and make them go away. Most of the memories from my life's past events were still blurry or gone, but I could tell you the name of everyone I'd ever met in life, what they looked like, and how I knew them. That night I decided to go to a club because it was late and there were people. I'd never been to one before, but I could hear the music outside in my car as I drove by the place and there were people waiting to get inside. I talked to the first familiar face I saw, he happened to be rolling at the moment too and asked me why I looked so down. Then he said, "oh yeah, you had that wreck and got killed, hahaha. The news had to recall all those papers. Here, take this and you won't care about it, smile man this is good shit!! :D "

He wasn't lying either, double stacked mitsubishi is what it was called when I asked him some time later with a smile on my face. When I asked for a little more info than that he said it was roll, X, ecstasy. I didn't care for or do drugs growing up, didn't know I was bipolar and the brain hemorrhage exacerbated it 100x fold, but I did know I liked what I felt and I wanted to share it with everyone I could. I had money from my wreck settlement, and I had something I wanted to do that was within my grasp. On Wednesday July 7th, 1999 at about 11:30pm I wrote a little letter saying bye, c-ya later, left it on my grandmother's kitchen table, and left for San Antonio Texas, 13.5hrs from home. I left to meet a chick that could get her hands on any and every drug out there because I wanted to try them all. Met her in an AOL chatroom. Risks weren't something I knew yet, and didn't feel for quite a while. So I took one after another w/o even knowing it. Innocent and care-free I started driving without saying a word to anyone about where I was going.


I do have a life that I understand completely now though and I"m stopping here, I've got some laundry to do and dishes to wash, a few people I've got to call, and a 3yr old daughter to take care of.
Adios muchacho's,

Until next time,
take care & God bless [o<
EcHo =o)
 
Welcome Welcome!

NAVY = Never Again Volunteer Yourself :\

I was in Recruit Training Command, Orlando and was placed into SEPS (Separations) due to having a hot urine. I admire your strength in pushing through the extent you did. Fuck... I still remember those words at chow 'Attention Shipmates! You have fifteen minutes and fifteen minutes only to enjoy your fine, fine Navy chow! There is NO talking in my galley..l.'

Ugh!
 
Thank you, I've been meaning to begin writing this "story of my life" for years. I lost my wife in a car accident last March, went through a custody battle for my daughter who was almost two at the time of the wreck, and had to cut half of my family out of my life at the same time. I've had so many people I know personally and acquaintedly ask me to write all of this down and put together a large journal or write a book that this is long overdue. My blog may not be the best place to share all of this, but I plan on writing daily as this is something helping me abstain from using what I went back to one year ago this month. To put it in short-form, I turned to IV meth because it's what my wife did when I first met her and helped her stop using. It was what began our relationship because I was clean at the time, and seeing her alone and getting high in front of her 2 1/2 year old son I couldn't walk away. She was 21yrs old at the time and that's the same age I was when I had a meth problem. I gave up college to become an RN/x-ray tech, and years of sobriety from meth in order to help her. It literally tore me down and through marriage, having a child, divorce caused by our families, and finally getting back together only to lose her again, having to fight my way through dealing with the loss alone, turning to meth myself and reliving my memories of her as if in her footsteps.......

On a lighter note, I was in SEPS for 3 1/2 days and very happy it wasn't longer. I remember the guys trying to dry shave like I did and what they turned their faces into, lol. Having to drink so much water that some guys couldn't hold it all. The biography I wrote was intentionally missing a bright side for effect, should I re-write it?

- Don't grieve over past mistakes, learn from the experience and move on with living

P.S. I came out of my coma 13 years ago today =o)
 
congrats on your 13 yr coma anniversary :)

i had two family friends get in serious car accidents while during the summer of 1998. one has made an almost full recovery and the other is still pretty much comatose :\

i liked your intro. i am terrible about writing about myself, which is why my blog is full of disjointed statements.
 
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