The thing at that time was speed. By the time I was 11, I had indulged in cigs, liquor, white crosses, coke and crack. Only those I indulged with and my closest friends knew. I spent my elementary years already doing hard drugs yet excelling in school and sports. At one point Mercer High School had beat Harrodsburg High School in football for 6 straight yrs. A friend and I took a hit of acid and we beat Mercer that year. I scored every point and the winning field goal on acid! I finally graduated high school. I remember waking up the morning of graduation sick and hungover. I just made it in time to the ceremony. I was late and distracted for the most important day of my life!! Somewhere in all the mess I was covering up, I managed to graduate and make my mother proud. We argued and fought a lot during high school. After all, I knew it all…but what I didn’t know was I was lost.
I lost all of my dreams when I started hiding those drinks as a little kid. I wanted to be grown and have fun like I saw people having at those parties as a child. I had drank, snorted, and smoked my dreams away! At 18 yrs. old I was involved in the robbery of gold and guns in Danville, KY. That was 1992 and I stayed in jail, or on probation/ parole until 2006. After high school I was planning to go to try out at the Cincinnati Bangles training camp. Someone said to me they believed I might be able to make the cut, but God had other plans. I ended up getting into a fight and getting my right tricep cut off on a 55 five gallon fish tank. Praise be to God that I had friends there because the doctor later said if they hadn’t wrapped my arm up in all those towels I would have died before I made it to the hospital. I died in the hospital for lack of blood, but God and a blood transfusion saved my life!
I ended up getting married, but I couldn’t mask my issues at home. I couldn’t keep food on the table for my family. I couldn’t keep the electric on or a job and I couldn’t keep my ex-wife from going back and forth to her parents’ house because I also became a mean drunk at home. Long story short my life spiraled down and fast! I smoked all my checks up. I started robbing houses. Drugs became my family. I’d smoked thousands of dollars of crack plus the drinking, not to mention selling every drug I did! All the while pushing all my family away until I was ashamed to go back!
My mom is without a doubt my number 1 fan and I have made some portion of the last 30 yrs of my mom’s life miserable! Before coming to the place that saved my life (Isaiah House), I started doing all the drugs I had before, but crystal meth had gained a new control of me that I could not shake. I lived house to house all winter the year of 2016-17. I was homeless, living in houses with no heat, no electric and was hungry! Even then, all I worried about is how to get high somehow.
Thanks to some friends, and I do mean Friends, I got help. They brought me to the place that saved my life- Isaiah House. Today I’m doing awesome. I have a job at the Isaiah House, I have a place to live and now I have custody of my youngest son plus my oldest son stays with me. I have a great relationship with my mom and my kids. I’m not perfect and there are probably some that still frown on me, but I know I’ve been saved and given a purpose in my life.
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