 | Biography/Personal Statement
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| I do not remember early childhood due to a serous
accident I had the day before my 9th birthday. It required emergency
surgery and I wasn't supposed to survive. I had a blood clot in my
brain due to a fall. God stepped in and had other plans for me. It
left me totally paralyzed and I was not supposed to ever walk or talk
normally again. I have no first hand memory of this, even to this day.
These are all things I have been told.
From that I was put into a coma for 5 weeks and in three different
hospitals for over 5 months. After which I went back home and had to
test so as to get back into school. I didn't have to stay back any
grades or anything. I went right back in the class that I had been in
prior to the accident. In fact I retained all the book knowledge that
I had gleaned and did really well in school. After 6th grade I
attended a private college prep school.
Life really changed for me when I started to use drugs and
alcohol. Everyone of my friends around the neighborhood were
doing it so I wanted to also. Once I started it took control of my
life. Needless to say. I really had a lot of fun and that was all I
wanted back then. I was removed from the prep school and placed in a
public school where I could be with my old friends again.
Problems really started at the age of 17. I went into a rehab, there I
was introduced to AA and realized that I had a problem. But I wasn't
done yet. I bounced in and out of AA for years. I would get
various lengths of dry time but would always go back drinking and
getting high. The longest period of dry time I had was 4 and a half
years. I really got it together went back to school, became an x-ray
tech and acquired all the material things, though I never found God. I
moved from this area and went to California and to Florida.
After a period of little sobriety I returned to my home in Trenton.
Finally I hit my rock bottom. I would get good jobs and would lose
them because I would drink all night and not show up for days. God
reached down to me and told me that I needed to do something. I was at
the end. I had nothing... physically, mentally or spiritually. I was
an empty shell. I finally got sober and found God through The
Salvation Army. I went through their rehab program for 8 months
and worked for them for 4 months after that.
Today I am living the way that God wants me to. I read the Bible ,
attend church regularly, sing in the Church choir and just try to do
the next right thing. I am truly grateful to realize that God is the
reason for everything good in my life. I truly love this house and
what it stands for. I feel God has led me here, all I have to do is to
follow His direction and all will be well.
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