Disabled Veteran Overcomes Addictions And Seeks Financial Help
by Anonymous
Life is worth living!
I was raised by two beautiful women in the south who did the best they could in that period of time. I had a scholarship in music from high school, but I began to drink and did this for many years before leaving home to join the military. I continued drinking but ended being discharged with an Honorable Discharge under General Conditions. Yet I was still drinking. I moved to Los Angeles, California and lived there for many years and my drinking along with drugs progressed. While in California I was diagnosed with HIV and began treatment there. I travelled to Alabama visiting family not wanting them to know what was going on in my life. When I returned I got word that I had been cured and begin to drink and drug to celebrate my healing for several years to pass. Finally after getting into a lot of trouble in LA I went home and visited with my mother till one day she came to me and said in these words, "son I know you are not staying here. Where are you going from here?" I said in return "to Ohio but I don't have any money," and she said, "I will send you." That was a blow for her to say that in front of my friends. Where is the mother's love that I was searching for? Well I came to Ohio, now my home, doing the same things as I was doing before but now only worse. I got a good job at TGIF when they first opened. I got fired, hired back, on and on, till finally one day my supervisor told me that it was get help or no job. So I ventured to find help and got the job back in 1996. Now it has been 13 years clean and sober. When I went back to work I became employee of the month. I purchased my first car and drove to Alabama with a God and understanding that I found in Alcoholics Anonymous. In August 2000 I became deathly ill when AIDS set in and I was near death. I was hospitalized and began to regain strength. In 2001 had a stroke and lost my entire left side and today I am walking with only a limb. I went home to visit family for a huge family reunion. I lost my grandmother, never drank, and returned to Ohio. I joined an awesome church in 2000 just before the AIDS illness and the saints were on their mission. The cure was God seeing ahead of time what was going to happen to me and gave me the chance to get all of my drinking in and come off in 1996 preparing me for what was lying ahead. He delivered me from the alcohol and drugs and I have also been a non-smoker till this day. I am on a fixed income and it is so hard for me to make ends meet. I would really love to enjoy financial freedom with a grant or someone out there that read this testimony that would help me out. I just finished college at the age of 51 getting a degree in Human Services to be able to work with recovering Alcoholics and addicts sharing my experience, strength and hope with them to overcome this horrible decease with drinking and drug and learn how to live life on life's terms. Yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never be. Live one day at a time and let God do the rest. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope someone out there will have a heart to respond. In case someone out there is willing to share your wealth with someone who is in need for the moment, this too shall pass. God Bless you all. Thank you for giving me this great opportunity to share my story. There is more but for now this is what I have to share.
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