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O.K. guys and guyesess, Normally I do not work on this journal till the weekend but one of you, you know who you are, asked me too. There are some things all of you should know as I have been misunderstood on several things. When I awoke from the anneurysm I did not know exactly where I was, or when I was... lollol When I fell ill I lived in Fort Worth Texas. I owned my own home and was well thought of in the community having been a successful business owner for seven years and as a coach for the Blue Raider association and others for several years. When I first became somewhat aware of my surroundings I thought I was in Fort Worth. I wasn't. I thought it was 1995 or thereabouts. It was closer to 1998. My wife bought in my children, I was not married to this woman and was not the father of her children. I was in a town 150 miles away from Fort Worth. The doctors explained that it was reasonable that I would not know my wife or children because of all the brain damage I had sustained. They explained that after a 79 day coma it was not unusual to be very confused as to date and people. For the first year I thought I was in a very bad dream. Instead of my nice house I was homeless and staying with my (fake) inlaws. My father assured me upon my questioning him that this was indeed my wife and kids. I asked to see a psychologist to get my reasoning back to working normal. I saw this profesional for a couple of years. By then I was back in college studying to get my psychology degree so I did not mind seeing her as therapy for psychologists is normal. We started at my earliest memory and took the whole trip through my life. She was a fruedian so most of her thinking followed Freud's theories. I journaled dailly for her and saw her for two hours each week. So this is not the first time that I have journaled most of my story, it is the second, which is why the telling of it bores me. In order to validate what I have lived through I tell my story so that others can gain from it. I "feel" very little as I now tell it. The first telling of it I unconsciously slipped into the third person. This is not uncommon among people whose childhood was so nasty that their minds dissasociate. I dissasociated many times throught out my childhood. Has my life been "normal"? I think not. My mother was crazy and a drug addict. My father was an achoholic and treated me as if I were a lab rat undergoing some very nasty experiments. What surprises me is that I came out of these experiences so 'normal". I attribute it to my grandparents who basically raised me as far as teaching me my morals and values. So please be patient with me as I will continue telling it and try to tell it is such a way that it is understandable, as wll as it can be. E
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well i guess you took care of that :)
That is an awesome story, sounds like it could be a movie!!!for Ralph he was put in a drug indused coma for 5 weeks, one week off then he started to wake up, he knew who we were but was very confused and I would amagine very afraid, he had a traceotomy in his throat, feeding tube in his stomach and a cathater from you know where. He recognized all of us and eventhough he could not communicate, he did so by his eyes and touching and all of us telling him he was going to be just fine.My children would make common faces to them and he would turn around and copy him, that is how we knew he was okay, that was after 6 weeks. The first time I took him out his mom was very sick and we thought she was dying, so I got him dressed put him in the car to drive 45 minutes, once on the highway he pointed right to where we live which was awesom. His problem was he was just so stubborn he wanted to leave, he wanted to walk etc but was paralized on the right side, that took time and a lot of patience.
Anyways, I enjoyed reading the beginning of you story I think you are awsom. Do you think you are stronger for what you have become and self-sustaining because you had to do most thing your way??\"?take very good care of yourself, here is a hug and a kiss, Joanne, jschensema@hotmail.com
You are my idol...can I be just like you?? lol MWAH!
Oh my friend - yes I think I am the one who was pushing you and I am so glad that you have shared the above. My God - you have gone through a lot and you came out of it so strong. I want the name of your therapist - I have never changed like that in therapy - and I was in therapy for 16 straight years!! Thanks for sharing this Eric.
Wow you are an inspiration to me for all you have gone thru in your life I always said I wanted to write a book on mine have you thought abt writing one I have family that has wrote books & they are pulished & still are writing.
I look up to u thank u for sharing.
((((Keep Smilin)))).
Dear Angel,
It hard enough living it but now I am bored with it and could not stay awake to write it! lollol
Oh I know what you mean its hard living it I still am & then some - on my good days my music gets me thru my day & my crafts & Awesome people like you who help support this is what I Love to do as I didn\'t have much support when I first found out I had cancer.
(((Hugs))).
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