The author always vowed never to be an alcoholic or do drugs. He wanted to be respected like his father. At the age of seventeen, the author broke his neck diving off a seawall. His doctor, as well as another respected surgeon, stated, “David is paralyzed from the neck down. No chance of recovery.”
Within eight months of his stay in two hospitals, the insurance money ran out. He could walk. He could not use his right hand. He left the first hospital as a drug addict because of a massive amount of morphine. Doses were fairly unregulated in 1969.
He quit a fantastic job making plenty of money in management. He was mentally exhausted and financially broke when he drove to California, stayed for five months, worked,…