After hearing the nurse my sight began to blur, then I remember shaking violently; passed out my life was now in the hands of a few late night nurses and doctors that would work to save my life. Something needed to change. I no longer felt invincible, but forced to simply choose life or death.

You never think anything bad can happen to you. Teenagers are notorious for experimentation. It usually falls in the categories of sex, drugs, or alcohol. My area of expertise was hard liquor and beer. My one purpose at that time was to get drunk and act like an idiot around fellow peers. Most of my peers new what their limits were, and then knew to stop. But a professional like me, we need to raise the bar. That’s the rush of being an athletic drinker. Besides a real man doesn’t have limits, th

You would think with this type of problem that my family life would be completely screwed up. Actually, you couldn’t get any better than a family that I was fortunate to have. I grew up with nothing but support and love. I had a happy childhood where I not only played sports but, also excelled in them. Always making all-star teams or winning awards, even getting the honor to represent my country playing baseball in Puerto Rico. When I was little child, waking up for school my mother would make me a nice breakfast to start the day off right. Fix my lunch for me or just give me money to buy lunch.

It’s to easy and tell someone that drinking is bad or smoking is bad. Because we know its bad, science as proven that is not good for you. Unfortunately, most people don’t listen, they “experiment.” And that’s okay for most people because they can live to realize their mistake. There’s some that sometimes don’t get do-overs. So I tell my story to whoever wants to know or to some who I feel they should know. It’s funny now that I’m in college I find my self looking around the classroom at other students. And you wonder what there story is. Not many people would have guessed that I was a heavy binge drinker at one point in my life. And it came to me that whoever you are or where you come from it doesn’t matter. There are problems out there and it eventually comes down to you and that choice you make. When I was eight years old, one day before my little league game my dad told me, “ Losing is easy… Winning isn’t…” At that time I didn’t fully understand th

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