“I’m lucky if I get an hour of sleep at night,” he explained. He is finally receiving some relief from his chronic pain at City Mission’s new Drug-free Pain Management Clinic. It was like the weight of the world had come off my shoulders.”ĭave is also rebuilding himself physically. She invited Dave to dinner, and now they talk on the phone every morning. But when he locked eyes with her for the first time, from across the room, they both started crying and embraced. On his day of service, his anxiety was “through the roof,” because he didn’t know how his aunt would respond. Coincidentally, they were delivering meals tothe place where his aunt works. His aunt feared for him every day during that time, worried that she would see his name in the obituaries.Īfter a year at the Mission, Dave was asked to help serve Thanksgiving meals as part of a City Mission community outreach. “I thought I had burned that bridge forever,” he said. Eventually, he had to move out on his own.īefore coming to City Mission, he had not spoken with his aunt for over three years. His growing addiction strained his relationship with his aunt. “That really got my addiction rolling,” he explained. To keep up with the demands of his job, Dave started taking pain medication. He began having severe pain, stiffness, and loss of motion in his neck and back, caused by a degenerative calcification of the spine. It was a demanding and stressful job with long hours.Īround this time, Dave’s health started to deteriorate. “I was very young to be running the kitchen,” he said. He started out busing tables and washing dishes but quickly moved up the ranks, eventually becoming head chef. “I lived with her for five or six years, into my early twenties.” During that time, he continued working at the restaurant his Mom had once managed. His scholarship, along with his dream of playing baseball, vanished.ĭave moved in with his aunt, his Mom’s sister. “It still gives me trouble to this day,” he said. Then, in his senior year of high school, Dave blew out his knee. She pretty much raised me single-handedly.” When he was 17, his life took a tragic turn.
“I used to listen to every game on the radio with my Grandpa.” “I always had a mind for the game,” he explained.
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He even earned a full scholarship to play baseball in college. “Little kids were actually asking for my autograph.” “It was an experience I’ll never forget,” he said. In high school, he traveled with an all-star team to compete internationally. As a teenager, Dave played in the Pony League World Series. “I had the chance to play with some of the best baseball players in the world,” said Dave,a current City Mission resident.
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