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About Me: Male, 47, MI, member since Jan 2010

I have been happily married for 13 years and have 2 daughters 6 and 9.  I have worked in government for the last 15 years. ... [More]

I love to hunt,fish,camp,college hockey and travel with my family.  I would love to beat this addiction forever but am going to need some help from some type of aftercare.

My addiction started from a few incidents in my life.  The first was 8 years ago I had a propane tank explode inches away from me and I had 2nd degree partial thickness burns which are the most painful burns on both my legs and right arm and then about 5 years ago I slipped and fell about 20 feet out of a tree while hunting and jammed by C1 vertabrae into the base of my skull.  They had to remove my C1 and filled in the gap with bovine percardium (fancy name for cow bone)  About a week later my body was rejecting the bone and I developed hydrocyphallus and was rushed to the hospital since it felt like someone was taking a hammer to my head everytime my heart would beat.  I was in so much pain it brought tears to my eyes.  They give me morphine and it still didn't do a thing.  I really had the ER docs freaked out.  Finally my Nurosurgeon showed up even though he was not on call he new it was serious.  They then gave me something called Delotten (spelled wrong) and the pain finally subsided and everything was a blur from there on out for about a week I did not remember anything.  They ripped the back of my neck open again and removed the cow bone and put a piece of gore tex in and sewed me back up.  My body was starting to reject again and they put a shunt inside my head and drained the extra cerebal fluid my brain was trying to produce thru a tube that went to my stomach.  Finally my body was accepting the gore tex and the shunt was working.  They kept me in the hospital for about 2 weeks this time.  I've been thru alot and it really *****.  I'm doing the CT again and will never ever go back please Lord help!!  I seen this addiction happen to everyday people like you and me and iit happens to the best of us and we all need each other to beat this addiction once and for all!!! [Less]

Interests: living a normal life again

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