Thursday, July 19, 2007
Recovery in Oregon
I was the CEO of this non-profit created to build this house and had received donations from some business, the best was from a well know lumber company who sent around 40 people to the house and worked a long day accomplishing many things. I also appeared on the local news talking about what I was trying to do with this house for veterans. I keep mentioning bad times associated with drinking that I experienced during these times, when I was still trying to deal with the aftermath from my injuries. I had pleaded with many doctors to help me with pain medication, but to no avail. Weather at this time I could have found a way to take painkillers responsibly, I will never know. The drinking was all about attempting to live without pain. Until I met my current doctor, who helped me adjust to pain medication, and not abuse it so it could help me, I was lost with no other way to live without constant pain, and consequently the drinking prevailed. Because of my self-medicating with alcohol, I was not making any progress in my life. Every time I thought I was getting a little ahead the booze always overcame my best efforts. I could not deal with the nerve damage pain my body had been experienced. This housing venture did not work with me in charge and I was voted out of the non-profit. I decided to go back to California, wait for my check from the insurance company, and plan a fresh start. I had been in a program in Roseburg and decided to go there and try my housing program again.
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