Adventures
On New Years Eve, December 31, 2003, I came home early (about 11:40pm) with a stomachache. I went to sleep at 12:30 and at 2 am, a drunk driver drove into my house and ran into me. I spent two days in intensive care, but due to my yoga and excellent conditioning (I was training for a marathon), I managed to recover quite quickly. Two months later, I enrolled in the two-year program at the Hakomi Institute in Boulder Colorado. One month after that, my 4 year old daughter was found to have a large tumor behind her right eye. Fortunately, it was found to be a very rare non-cancerous disease called Eosinophilic Granuloma (LCH), although she still had to undergo 6 months of chemotherapy. At last check, she appears to be in total remission and we are incredibly grateful for the wonderful Doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston!!!
Finally, in July of 2005, I was lost on the Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii and had to live by squeezing water out of moss for 5 days. I have an entire home video of the ordeal which has yet to be published but you can see much of the story on the Discovery Channel March 11, 2006 at 9pm EST; or read about it by Googling.
According to several of my closest friends, I’ve used up about 4 or 5 of my 9 lives and need to slow it down a bit. After the serious distress I caused my family and friends from the Volcano incident, I have been very careful to plan extra safety into my subsequent outings.
Here are some of the news stories below, and here is an audio stream of the ordeal entitled "Muddy Green Water"
http://starbulletin.com/2005/07/24/news/story4.html
