From Chado....for the better....

[drugstuntman]

I have earned my title of drugstuntman by sampling many of the substances man had discovered over the years, but I am quite thankful that coke has never got a grip on me. It takes a brave man to step up like you have Chado and you need to keep this as a priority in your life. Take the time you need to realize what is important and know that all the sacrifice will be worth it in the end. Best of luck.

[xstac2169]

hey man I appreciate the winners but life is definately more important. Good luck in getting it all straightened out!!

[RDOG55]

CHADIZZLE "game of a lifetime"

I am also around your age(25) Chad and used the drug recreationally when I was in college but could see my self starting to become addicted and luckily had the willpower to stop before the addiction grew. I commend you greatly for stepping up the the plate and realizing that you need help. While you are away I would recomend that you just forget about gambling and let the treatment work for you.

Good luck in all you do and hope you hit your "game of a lifetime".

Rob(rdizzle)

[WayneChung]

chado-i'm sure your not the only guy on the site with some addiction problems,if you can do this at a young age and STICK-MEANING STAY SOBER-it will be the best move you've ever made in your life,don't fight it for years like some of us have done,when it all comes down to the end-the only things that mean a DAMN ARE your family and friends-i can tell you from experience,they are very hard to hold on to if your under the grips of addiction-HOPE WITH ALL MY HEART THIS WORKS OUT FOR YOU BROTHER-SINCERELY IRONCHUNG !!

[MNCapper]

Chado, just saw this post. Hope you can beat this addition and get back to a clean life. Glad you realized this problem before you got evicted or fired from your job. Takes a big man to admit this problem and to take this big step. Wish you nothing but the best and we'll all be here when you get out.

[zeib10]

Chado,
I wish you the best of luck my friend. I have no idea of what it must be like (I only drink a lot of beer), so I will just leave it at that.

If you ever need anything, get my addy and let me know.

Talk to you soon at playoff time!!

[LeRoy]

Good Luck Chado on the game of the lifetime in getting clean and staying that way. I'll be praying for your recovery my friend. God Bless

[KINGNEIL]

You're a smart, smart man headed in the right direction. Best of luck!!!!!!!!!!

[the lumberjack]

been down that road and know plenty of others. good luck to you brother and will be waiting for your return!!!!!

[bryce]

Best of luck CHADO and i know you won't see this till you get out. When I came back to BC I posted saying I have been away for awhile and that was because of alcohol. I was involved in a crash last March and went through a similar situation. I could blame everything of why I got addicted to alcohol...divorce, bad relationships, childhood etc...It all comes down to you and realizing the problem..We all have addictive personalities to some point. Mine was alcohol, gambling and women. I have lost many good friends and wives over it. I am currently enrolling in a SCRAM program where it monitors your alcohol 24-7 so I can start getting my son as she is using this dui/accident as far as she can...I have a great job and this was my bottom for me..spent 10 days in jail...judge gave me 40 but with the condition of rehab those were suspended. It is a long road my friend and a tough one at that. One day at a time my brother, one day at a time. I wish you the best and if you ever need to reach out please let Spark know he has my email...GOD BLESS CHADO!!

[seaofred]

good luck to you CHAD,its a very tough thing but i think you can beat it if you want to,remember it has to be for you and only you for it to work

[GOLDENGREEK]

Chado, the number one reason I moved to Ca. was to get away from that stuff. For the last 25 years, I would go out either after work on Friday, or after golf on Sat. and party half the night away. Was in the hospital twice for almost having a heart attack and developed acid reflux from it going down my esophagus.
I almost lost my family as well.
People have said that I am 2 different people, Pgh Chuck and Ca Chuck. But the bottom line is the Pgh Chuck didn't give a shit about anything and blew lots of $$$ on gambling, partying and everything else in his life, and lived a reckless life. He needed the attention 24-7 in everything he did. Lucky for me I was strong enough to fight the drug off all week and never missed a day of work.

Ca. Chuck on the other hand is a guy who took control of his life and is now just this conservative Dad, who has everything in life to look forward to. Family, retirement in a few years to name a few. I can look at myself in the mirror right now and see a better man.

I see GoldenGreek as a younger version of myself, especially when he brags and has a 10 inch signature with the biggest letters he could get in it. I tracked him the last 2 months and he padded his records by over 40 units, just like I did. I truley wanted to have a truce with him, but he is out of control right now, just like I was. Some day he will also grow up and realize, that there is more in life than posting on an internet forum.

I made a lot of enemies over the years and wish I could take it all back, but I can't. But all I know is that I have change my life into a more stable one, and found out who my true friends are, by the one's who continue to call me, even when living on the opposite side of the USA. God and Family will always be there, if you let them.

Take care and just get well.

SAD AND SICK THAT YOU HAVE TO CONTINUE THIS B.S. IN A SERIOUS AND IMORTANT THREAD LIKE THIS. YOU ARE TRUELY A SICK INDIVIDUAL. UNLIKE YOU I DO NOT FUDGE MY RECORDS LIKE U HAVE BEEN CAUGHT DOING NUMEROUS TIMES IN THE AST. YOU ADMITTING IT KNOW MEANS NOTHING SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN BUSTED DOING SO. THIS IS ACTUALLY A ERFECT THREAD BECAUSE IT SEEMS I AM YOUR COCAINE CHUCK. YOU HAVE A SICK OBSESSION WITH ME AND YOU CANT KICK THE HABIT= ME . GET HEL FAST !!!

YOU HAVENT TRACKED SHIT BECAUSE THE RECORD IS ACCCURATE. WHY DONT YOU GO OVER EVERY SINGLE BET OVER THE LAST FORTY DAYS YOIU HAVE SUOSEDLY TRACKED ME. SHOW THE WINS AND LOSES FOR EACH SELECTION AND SHOW ME WHERE MY NUMBERS DO NOT ADD . YOU CANT!!!! BECAUSE YOU LIE .

A~ YOU HAVENT TRACKED SHIT
B~ IF YOU DID YOUWOULD KNOW MY RECORD IS LEGIT

THE FOLKS HERE ARE SICK OF THIS SHIT BETWEEN ME AND YOU. WHY DONT YOU GO TO ANOTHER FORUM AND FIND A NEW ERSON TO STALK AND HARRASS YOU SICK HUMAN BEING

[heleanth]

Chado, just to let you know that it is possible, I am clean and sober now 22 years on April 17th!! Not bragging, just letting you know that if I can do it, you can do it. You just have to give up control to the Big Guy upstairs and the rest just falls into place. It gets easier as time goes on, but you always have to stay aware that you will always have the addiction...

GL and God be with you..

Mike

PS. Wayne, your story was heart-rendering. Takes courage and true caring to share that with us. Thank you.

[Spark]

Chado, just to let you know that it is possible, I am clean and sober now 22 years on April 17th!! Not bragging, just letting you know that if I can do it, you can do it. You just have to give up control to the Big Guy upstairs and the rest just falls into place. It gets easier as time goes on, but you always have to stay aware that you will always have the addiction...

GL and God be with you..

Mike

PS. Wayne, your story was heart-rendering. Takes courage and true caring to share that with us. Thank you.

You should brag about that ... Congrats to you heleanth .... Show him the way ...

[rocko]

hey chad,man im truly greatful for u to be doing this,,,, THIS IS YOUR BEST BET U WILL EVER MAKE TRUST ME i have also been threw a bad bad addiction WITH PAIN PILLS,AND BOOZE TO GO ALNONG WITH IT the pill that is, i had a very bad accident were i feel threw a skylight at a job sight and fell 30 feet in 1992 and my life went real bad after that cause i was off work for over 5 yrs i had only been married for 4 months and yes she took off about 2 months later cause she told me she could not handle seeing me like i was and the bad shitt did not even happen yet lol the best theing it came out of my accident lol i was 24 yrs old when this all happen,
i shatter my rt. wrist when i fell and my wrist became very infected thanks to a butcher of a dr., but after over 20 surgeries they finally had to fuse my wrist together but ill tell ya had 3 diffent dr. feeding me pain pills and out of bordem everyday was at the bar by noon everyday and taking hands full of pills i mean hand full, it was a sick sick thing, i almost start crying just typing this right now cause im so ashamed of myself for getting that bad.........

but one day i woke up and i lost about 50lbs, not in one day lol,but i still remember like yesterday i had no musle stregeth left in me like i went to go take a shower and i could not even finsh cause my knees buckle up on me, then just when i would go to sit down i could not contol just sitting down i was soo weak that i would just fall down ,so thank god i live with my sister and parents and my sister tricked me in taking me to the er room in the hospital and thank god she did cause they ran just simple blood work on me and the dr. came back in and told me that my liver had shut down and if i did not stay in the hospital i had maybe a week to live,,the dr. had no ideal how i was able to walk into the hospital he told me that i had a liver that he would usally see about after 60-70 yrs of hard dinking everyday,and i asked well how did my liver get so bad so quick i mean it was only 5 hard yrs of drinking and he told me it was the deadly combination of the pain meds and booze he could not belive it took as long as it did to send me to the hospitial,
i will tell u after 20 surgeys, 2 hip replacements,which i had put in about 6 yrs ago which stem from my accident,being on all those pain meds and booze was the worse think i ever went threw i rather go threw 20 more sur. then go threw getting off booze and pain meds,i never seen my father cry but maybe twice before till the day he came into the hospital and they told him how bad of shape i was in and i remeber the first 2 days i was there but the next 4 days were a blurrr and i when i came back too they had me tied down to the bed ,cause when i was going threw my DT;s,detox,apperently i became very volient and im not like that at all and yes my skin turmed yellow also that was the hardest thing i EVER EVER went threw i still can hear my dads voice yelling at the dr. for giving all those pain meds and almost killing me but like the dr. said they did not pour the booze down my throught i did
i was so bad that the bartender down at the bar said she could not watch me drink my first couple drinks cause my hands were shaking so bad i wouild do a shot and a beer right when i walked in and my hand were so shaky it took both hands just to get the shot up to my lips WOOOW thats bad but that enough
i can now PROUDLY SAY I HAVE NOT DRANK i beer since that stay in the hospital which has been over 8 YEARS AGO YEAAAAHHHHHH but u know it still takes a lot for me to say im proud of myself cause im the one that got my self into that almost death bed but my parents blam the dr.s but who carse im MUCH MUCH BETTER IM MARRIED AGSAIN HAVE TO BEATIFUL GIRLS and i own my own business which is doing greatttttttttt but the only bad thing is with my hip being replaced and there like 6yrs old and my bad wrist and back and i have to do alot of walking they told me im a cronic pain paitent so yes i have to take pain meds to get by trust me i try not to take them but it was to sever but my dr will not give me pills he has me on a pain patch and i go see him once a month so he keeps me vey controlled but any how im sorry so long
im just hoping and showing u it can be done CAUSE IF U DO NOT TAKE CARE OF IT U WIOLL EITHER END UP DEAD OR END UP WITH KNOW LIFE AT ALL I HAVE BBEEN THERE BROTHER AND LET ME TELL YA THE GRASS IS A LOT GREEENER ON THIS SIDE OF THE FENCE COME ON MAN IF I CAN DO IT ANYONE CAN CAUSE I HAVE A VERY VERY ADDICTED PERSONALITY HANG IN THERE MY FRIEND
GOD BLESS YA AND THERE IS ALWAYS FREINDS HERE
GLLLLLL
GET-R-DON U EVER JUST WANT TO TALK GET MY EMAIL FROM WAYNE BE MORE THEN HAPPY TO RAPP WITH YA
PEACE