2012

 2012

January I signed up for Branford Hall started school, my body was failing me. I just got married previous October and I didn't ask my wife about signing up for school and I also don't think she was happy about it. I remember sitting in the back bedroom in West Warren looking out the window feeling like my life was going nowhere and I had no idea why. At the time, I didn’t understand that the system was designed to keep people down, I honestly believed that the system was supposed to help us and that we are all supposed to be there for each other. lol

After starting at Branford, just by coincidence one of my best friends, Eric started taking classes there as well. It shows the lack of communication ahead of the time that I didn’t tell anybody anything and no one had a clue what I was doing, and I didn’t know what they were doing either.

Medical assisting school was way too easy for me, But then when I started getting sick, I started having horrible anxiety and panic attacks. I remember one time in class this girl we used to call her potbelly Kelly. She was super disruptive in class, Probably exactly like I was a child lol

Unfortunately, one day I yelled at her because she was being really annoying, and I was having a lot of anxiety. She had looked on my phone and told another girl in class what was on it, And I yelled for her to mind her own business and told her how annoying she was. Which looking back was completely stupid because she was not disrupting any of the learning experience for me anyway. It was just my anxiety getting the best of me. And it was more of a cut the crap yelling at her, But honestly, looking back, I feel like a complete jerk, I’m sure it was totally embarrassing for her and I shouldn’t of done that.

March 16th we went to New York City laura and I and saw Joel Mchale.

Picture of Dominic and I at 5 mile pond in May, I love chasing down baby geese petting them and then letting them go lol

6-22 left wrist arthroscopy Dr Adler

 June 22rd I had arm surgery, for some reason after surgeries, we always went and did something, had tons of energy after surgery and this day I’m almost positive is was this surgery.  Laura Dom and I went to Quabbin Reservoir and that’s when we saw the baby porcupine on the path and it was leaping around. It was one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen. I love baby animals. I remember waking up from the surgery because my doctor told me he was going to shorten the alma in my left forearm. But he wasn't able to do that because the ligaments in my left wrist were so bad that it took them almost two hours to stitch them back together. I remember him apologizing to me because things were much worse than the scans led him to believe. I'm going to hear this from a couple doctors I mean surgeons

You can see that I did not suffer from a lack of energy or a lack of motivation after having surgery

Took Dominic to Zot Park in Chicopee. I think all the tanks are fenced up

For anybody that likes to see what it looks like when someone has torn ligaments in their wrist repaired, they use buttons to hold things together.

Saturday April 21st did the Westfield Wildwater races canoes this year I only raced with my wife Laura We came in 6th place. There are no pictures because when I get sick and break up with people I just delete everything I don't know why I do stuff like that I think it's because of my anxiety

I moved back to Springfield with Laura to keep going to school because it was too hard to travel from Warren to Springfield for a medical assisting job. Honestly I don’t think I asked her opinion. I probably talked to her into moving back to Springfield. I can’t be sure if Laura had any issues with my behavior up until this point, She might’ve been OK. After this, my behavior got much worse 

This is taken July 8th at Mary Lynch Field, I still have one of these foam planes, they don't sell them anymore. I love these things, ever since I was a kid I thought these were the greatest.

July 29th we went to Monster's trucks at Stafford Springs Motor Speedway

Laura and I took Dominic to Mike's maze I believe it's in Sunderland up near Mount Sugarloaf. Here's a picture of the two of them shooting the potato guns

Right now if you Dominic was in a Cub Scout parade at the Big E in West Springfield

Laura took classes at Goodwin College in Connecticut while I was at Branford Hall this year

That fall October or November I was injured at work, even though I had a cast on, jerks gave me harder jobs. I never got time off to heal. I should’ve been really pissed at this, We all did specific jobs every day, The only time things would change were at the beginning and ends of rounds, so that’s what they called it. I used to reset fruit snacks, canned vegetables, canned fruits, The types of things you can handle with one hand. And by reset I mean, I would go into different western mass Big Y’s and change the set up for new food items coming in and for old items being discontinued to be removed. We would receive specific blueprints that would need to be followed. The catch with this job was you got paid for your entire shift no matter what, so the faster you worked, the faster you got to go home. Then to be a jerk the manager for my team gave me bulk juice boxes, when you could clearly see that I was only using one hand work and had a full cast on. lol Honestly, I think if I didn’t have the genetic issues that I have I would’ve been fine doing that set. I was that buff at the time. lol

 

Took Dominic ice skating at Forest Park, that year they are giving out monster trucks to all the kids. I love skating at a few of these local places because we went to them as kids and it just brings back happy memories. Love the fact that I'm sharing my memories with the future generation.

Medications for the year.