the book of

ADAM

TL;DR, Jesus is King


On a beautiful day in February of 2017, I hit the slopes with my wife, siblings and cousins.

Despite little experience, I took on the mountain with no fear.

And then…

Although this picture above was more or less a joke from earlier in the day, later I did eventually hit the ground and was unable to get up.

I caught an edge, whipped head first into the ice.

The back of my head touched my back.

I felt my flesh squeeze through my bones.

I heard and felt many pops. I thought my heart exploded.

As I flopped on the ground, gasping for air, I recall thinking, “I thought I would want to see my kids when I die, but as I am, all I can think is breathe.”

Ski partol found me. Carted me to an ambulance. They gave me two doses of fenenal and drove me to the ER.

Feb 4th 2017

As I lay in agony, I was also high out of my mind.

The nurse considered me a drug seeker.

They sent me home.

On the way home, the fentanyl wore off.

My whole body began to cripple in pain.

My brothers carried me in to bed.

I cried my deepest tears.

Feb 10th 2017

After a week, my condition got worse.

An audible “gurgle” was coming from my chest as i moved around.

My chest was still “cramping” and my feet were numb.

I went back to the ER, where they found a collapsed lung. Imaging suggested nodules and blebs from an underlying condition named sarcoidosis.

I was told to see a specialist.

Scheduling was 6 months our.

I was sent home.

A casual weekend smoker turned into a daily routine as I desperately needed relief from high levels of pain.

Late at night I would blaze. The residual effect would create enough relief to last the following day.

I had many good days during 2017 because of this. I have lots of pictures of smiles and great moments.

However the pain began to compound. And my condition steadily grew worse.

Time pasted, my pain didnt.

It became transcendent.

My intake of meds grew grew, my perspective became strange.

I kept going back to the ER and specialists.

Because of their findings, they insisted the pain was autoimmune, and began to treat me with nothing short of voodoo.

I did ask for a spinal MRI each time.

I was convinced I had triggered something which I could only describe as spinal arthritis.

Time continued to pass.

Weeks, months, years.

I began to live one thousand years in every second.

My body was being electrocuted.

I became allergic to everything.

The sun. Fumes, perfumes, the dishwasher. Dogs in the office. Food. Sugar. Everything.

Suicide was on the fore front of my mind every hour. Death seemed so relieving.

My family kept me going.

My kids brought joy and a sense of the future, why I shouldnt quit.

My wife, whom grew sick of it all, kept me tough.

My siblings, gave me sympathy.

Night sweats and nightmares.

I woke up gasping for air and choking often.

I began sleeping in my office. One to control the temp and air. Two because my wife was sick of it.

I worked like a dog to keep my pay check.

Migrated my company to the cloud.

Staying relevant to stay secure.

I wrote poetry to keep from workplace or public outbursts.

SARCOID’S VOID

Back to the doctors.

More time passed.

Perhaps a million years or a trillion tears.

Some doctor thought it was worth biopsy’ing my lung to confirm the prior findings was not bacterial.

It wasn’t. Thanks for that, not really, thats not a very smart idea to cut open a chest to explore. Definitely a bad idea.

Seen above I am working from the ICU as I still have to make a living. At this point I bet I sent $30K in doctor fees.

I am smiling because I brought weed pills. I refused to take their opioids. My conscious effort to remain pure from their theories of it all. A failed attempt but noble in some minuscule way.

Considering the results of the biopsy, they prescribed prednisone, low dose chemo, and anti depressants.

Later realizing they essentially didnt know what to do but get me hooked.

I was starting to lose myself and was at first self aware of it.

Not so much later on.

More time passed.

Art became an outlet.

I became manic.

80 MG of prednisone daily will do that to you.

The low dose chemo made me toxic.

At first I recall my perception of colors changed.

Then the world changed.

I recall noticing my proximity to death.

My convictions grew.

I realized I was a terrible person but didnt have the energy to care.

Nothing was as I originally thought it was.

Everything seemed broken.

For example, our churches are dead.

The streets are dirty.

People are shallow.

Needless to say I was jaded and bitter.

Toxic.

Back to the ER. No answers.

I started writing on my walls. In hindsight, that should have been my sign to myself.

I needed an outlet.

More time passed.

My arthritic symptoms got worse. I was being destroyed by each passing storm.

The mania was real and every drop of rain was felt.

My sensitivity to pollution grew.

My immune system tanked.

Well before COVID 19 I began wearing a mask.

Otherwise I couldnt breathe.

Everything but the freshest air caused me to choke.

My kids needed discipline, order, a mission. But I couldnt help. We outsourced it. I witnessed the mesmerizing trance of leaders which crafted our children, and the eager parents desperate to find solutions for their children. Myself included. I certainly struggled with instilling strength into my children and am thankful for the community’s support.

Part of me no longer cared about what was normal.

I became really weird.

So much more time passed.

and more time passed…

I didnt want to outsource my role indefinitely. I wanted to be there and did whatever I could to make it.

Coached a bunch.

It was fun.

I love sports and kids.

More time passed. I began growing weed considering how expensive it was to feel pain free.

Wasnt very good at it.

I painted my view of the issue.

More and more time passed.

I was in desperate search of reality.

Ultimately I completely lost all sense of truth.

Mania is ugly.

I committed many sins.

Many mistakes.

I cursed out family.

I betrayed my wife.

I plotted my murder.

Fairly certain it could be my last Christmas.

Suicide was 100% on the table.

But I couldnt give up just yet.

Too many were watching.

And then my family staged in intervention.

They insisted I went to a shrink.

It was really upsetting.

I took my family’s advice and saw a shrink.

She recommended lithium as she said I was bipolar.

It was in that moment I realized they are all broken, witch doctors.

Shortly after my appointment with the psychiatrist, I was driving down the road, thinking,

“wow, the sky is so beautiful… wait, I have not felt this way in forever. whats going on???”

I dawned on me, I forgot my meds today.

From mid Jan 2020 I started reducing my intake of all their meds. Weed too.

With some new found mental clarity, albeit very little,

I found myself back at a specialist who I had seen many times.

Complained about the same thing, pain, like I was being electrocuted. I was numb everywhere. Crying daily.

And just like I said every single visit, my wife, mother, father and mother-in-law as my witness, “I want a spinal MRI because after I wrecked I feel like I have spinal arthritis.”

To which the ignorant women said, if you’re numb I want to do an EKG first.

The EKG reveled yes there was numbness and a disruption of the circuit.

She ordered a brain MRI, she mentioned a brain tumor was likely the cause the mood changes too… lolz

Results, nothing…. lolz again

Next a cervial MRI was ordered.

There is a problem between C4 & C5.

They asked me to go via ambulance to the ER and I was to have emergency surgery they next day.

I got another call a couple mins later, the hospitals are shut down due to COVID 19 as of today.

I drove home and laugh cried.

Mind you, I had brought with me peer reviewed articles to numerous DR appointments which I demonstrated why my original diagnoses were wrong.

One time, I got ready to cite one, “Dr, I read in the Journal of your Peers they found….” to which he cut me off and replied “I’ve read that one, you are wrong.”

Yet I never mentioned any detail about the paper, like the title, or my point. But he still cut me off.

Like I challenged his intellect and he was insulted I would try, and therefore wouldnt hear me and instead belittle me as punishment.

He followed with the next two comments, which I cant forget.

“You should go see a shrink.” And then turned to my wife, who by this time hated me, and said “How do you deal with this one.”

I felt just like this guy in the video. So much more. Like a victim, a villain, a hero.

SIMPLY TOYED

Still triggered by the cycles of mania, I did what I could to pursue peace.

Thank God for COVID tho… at least from my perspective, it was a blessing.

The world stopped so I could catch up.

I made my attempts to focus more on the family.

I did get time with the kids, however enough was enough. I wanted change. Seemed like the rest of the world was feeling similarly.

Being bitter and angry, I did get fooled by the lies. I was ready to fight and didnt need much to be convinced. When you are made so weak and vulnerable, its a stones throw.

I was broken and trying to cope with weed HOWEVER weed, and or SSRIs or other mind altering meds do NOT allow you to see the real facts with clarity!

Later reflecting, I believe this is why the left has such a strong hold, they prey on people who want others to solve their problems. Medicating them makes that victim easily persuaded.

There wasnt much time tho for protesting with ANTIFA, so much to prepare for on the big day!

June 6th 2020

Ah! Relief!

The surgeon said once he relieved the pressure, I lifted my hand on the table and gave him a thumbs up??!!??

To which my response was like, bro, you didnt strap me down???

ACDF procedure

When I came to, my first thought was, wow I can feel my feet.

During the next couple hours, electrical like shocks of relief shot through my chest and my heart and lungs began to receive life.

My heart relaxed. My breathing got deeper.

Relief.

About 80% of my syptoms resided.

Emotionally a wreck.

Physically depleted.

There was still a fight within me.

Continued to journal as my mania wasnt relieved.

My fight turned to anger.

Chapter 3

Fresh off of surgery, my wife took the kids on a trip while I stayed home to heal.

Time passed and I fasted. Not as much an intentional fast, but I couldnt make food as my wound was too fresh. It was easier to not eat.

Another rush again of my cycles going from one emotion to the next. Seconds or milaseconds apart.

Tripping.

A bit different then the mania but also the same.

My reliance to Christ was never stronger, never healthier, and to this day I miss it.

Not as if I was sanctified. But as if I was close to the other side.

The sensitivity in my central nervous system was so overwhelming I dont know the words to describe it.

I could at least see the spiderwebs of my nerves through my skin.

I could sense things on another level. But the meaning of what I sensed was never fully understood.

The purpose of this all wasnt clear but I didnt care as I felt His comfort.

Fasting away…. time was irrelevent.

I flashed back to when I retraced my heritage.

During the fasting, I searched for meaning, one thing became evident.

I am NOT living up to the family name.

My pain at least produced discipline.

The meaning of discipline: 1. : to punish or penalize for the sake of enforcing obedience and perfecting moral character. 2. : to train or develop by instruction and exercise especially in self-control.

As time goes by, and more clarity comes, I want to destroy my story and hide.

While it doesnt seem like I learned my lessons based on the prior images of me smoking weed and giving the middle finger to trump, wow I was so wrong about nearly everything.

Absolutely embarrassed.

I was and am a fool.

I was hustled.

However there is a reason to keep your failures and your scars top of mind.

Not to bury them and rebuild like nothing happened.

Instead I should wear it.

Being “strong and courageous”.

chapter 4

My Appologies

I’m not 100% proud of those poems & doodles,

Yet what was said was said and should be contemplated upon

Mostly for some therapeutic venting, post mortal pscyo-analytics idk,

or maybe it was prophesy of whats to come…

Regardless, at this point I am different, back to myself a bit more. Not fully but a dramatic difference then before.

I now focus on living in the moment and winning it for the Kingdom of God as defined by the Holy Bible.

And so now is different.

The frustration of being in mind numbing pain, coupled with poorly prescribed meds, was once released through poems while trapped in a tiny room (pre-covid).

My subsequent struggle eventually became growth in some sense and turned into an over flowing river of divine spiritual fruit.

In response to James 2:18-19 I shall give an effort.

https://www.ted.com/talks/suleika_jaouad_what_almost_dying_taught_me_about_living

Ok now I shall give an effort, except I dont have energy and am terribly wounded.

I dont want to be a victim tho. I have learned so much and would rather apply it.

Still seriously battling.