New Job!
Hey everybody.
I am viewing a new office on Monday. I am going into business here. I was approached by a local businessman who offered me a position, more of a partnership, but it give me a work permit and something to do to make money. My wife can work as well.
I have to admit that I didn't tell this forum everything about what my wife and I went through. I think a few people figured it out but it was a hundred times worse than anything I described so I am truly sorry if, during that process I lost my temper, said a few things to people who didn't deserve it. I am truly sorry and I can only ask that you accept my apologies. You know who you are.
Anyway, I am over the moon. Getting away from Scotland was the only thing we could do. We drove all the way across Europe and across Turkey and ended up on the coast in a campground waiting over the religious holidays for a ferry to Cyprus where I had been offered a job. We had to camp out because no hotel would take us in with a dog. I think that was the beginning for us. We were surrounded by thousands of poor local people whose only holiday consisted of piling their own beds onto the back of a truck and driving to a campground on a beach with no facilities and only some holes to crap in. Despite not knowing any English they were the friendliest people. I went into town one day and came back and my wife was surrounded by people. At one point in her life she couldn't leave the house sober and there she was in a strange place surrounded by strangers and having a great time.
We then met an army officer on the ferry and got to know his family and are still good friends. I have joined a local organization for foreign residents here and will, hopefully, be starting to earn money in a few days time. We bought a house with the money from our home in Scotland and have five dogs, two of which we rescued from the top of a building at a local beach.
I stopped posting here because I wanted to devote my time to writing a paper on legal aspects of baclofen treatment and when I finished it I sent it to the people in France. I am now putting the finishing touches on it with the help of a retired professor. I had to do this to get all this stuff out of my mind and I needed a break from what was going on here because it was upsetting and disturbing.
To go through what we went through for all those years with people saying there is no treatment, never will be, and providing nothing remotely resembling help was a ride through hell. Then baclofen comes along and it works. Not only does it work, it explains what alcoholism and addiction is. What an incredible breakthrough. It was such a rush to be here back in the days when Lo0p and Bill P were the first on here helping others, and then for other people to come on and then to see a community develop. It was sad to see some of them go, even if they were a bit beyond pale and it was a shock beyond words to read that Lo0p was gone...what can I say...
I think everyone here or who has been here through that should be proud of themselves for being part of this community and helping others, not just here, but everywhere, lurkers and patients of doctors who lurked, researchers studying this forum...you name it. Everyone heard about this forum and it will never be forgotton, or matched. There is no illness so intractable and so painful as alcoholism because it destroys people and everyone around them.
Now we are in a new phase of this. Big pharma have got the scent and are going in for the kill. We can only now stand by and watch what happens. Maybe they would like to close down this forum and bury what has happened here so no one knows about it. What a shame that would be. I for one, don't intend to let that happen. I will pursue my interest in baclofen treatment for as long as it takes, until I feel I have accomplished what I have set out to do.
All I have to say is a sincere thanks for all the support I have had here and the best wishes for everyone here who is genuinely helping to get the message about baclofen out there to those who need this life saving drug.
If, in the course of this, I lose my temper with some here who are opposed to this development, for whatever reason, my upset comes from years of seeing this illness nearly destroy someone I love and me and now seeing someone try to diminish the very thing that gave me hope and has given our family back a wife, mother and a sober, happy woman.
I am viewing a new office on Monday. I am going into business here. I was approached by a local businessman who offered me a position, more of a partnership, but it give me a work permit and something to do to make money. My wife can work as well.
I have to admit that I didn't tell this forum everything about what my wife and I went through. I think a few people figured it out but it was a hundred times worse than anything I described so I am truly sorry if, during that process I lost my temper, said a few things to people who didn't deserve it. I am truly sorry and I can only ask that you accept my apologies. You know who you are.
Anyway, I am over the moon. Getting away from Scotland was the only thing we could do. We drove all the way across Europe and across Turkey and ended up on the coast in a campground waiting over the religious holidays for a ferry to Cyprus where I had been offered a job. We had to camp out because no hotel would take us in with a dog. I think that was the beginning for us. We were surrounded by thousands of poor local people whose only holiday consisted of piling their own beds onto the back of a truck and driving to a campground on a beach with no facilities and only some holes to crap in. Despite not knowing any English they were the friendliest people. I went into town one day and came back and my wife was surrounded by people. At one point in her life she couldn't leave the house sober and there she was in a strange place surrounded by strangers and having a great time.
We then met an army officer on the ferry and got to know his family and are still good friends. I have joined a local organization for foreign residents here and will, hopefully, be starting to earn money in a few days time. We bought a house with the money from our home in Scotland and have five dogs, two of which we rescued from the top of a building at a local beach.
I stopped posting here because I wanted to devote my time to writing a paper on legal aspects of baclofen treatment and when I finished it I sent it to the people in France. I am now putting the finishing touches on it with the help of a retired professor. I had to do this to get all this stuff out of my mind and I needed a break from what was going on here because it was upsetting and disturbing.
To go through what we went through for all those years with people saying there is no treatment, never will be, and providing nothing remotely resembling help was a ride through hell. Then baclofen comes along and it works. Not only does it work, it explains what alcoholism and addiction is. What an incredible breakthrough. It was such a rush to be here back in the days when Lo0p and Bill P were the first on here helping others, and then for other people to come on and then to see a community develop. It was sad to see some of them go, even if they were a bit beyond pale and it was a shock beyond words to read that Lo0p was gone...what can I say...
I think everyone here or who has been here through that should be proud of themselves for being part of this community and helping others, not just here, but everywhere, lurkers and patients of doctors who lurked, researchers studying this forum...you name it. Everyone heard about this forum and it will never be forgotton, or matched. There is no illness so intractable and so painful as alcoholism because it destroys people and everyone around them.
Now we are in a new phase of this. Big pharma have got the scent and are going in for the kill. We can only now stand by and watch what happens. Maybe they would like to close down this forum and bury what has happened here so no one knows about it. What a shame that would be. I for one, don't intend to let that happen. I will pursue my interest in baclofen treatment for as long as it takes, until I feel I have accomplished what I have set out to do.
All I have to say is a sincere thanks for all the support I have had here and the best wishes for everyone here who is genuinely helping to get the message about baclofen out there to those who need this life saving drug.
If, in the course of this, I lose my temper with some here who are opposed to this development, for whatever reason, my upset comes from years of seeing this illness nearly destroy someone I love and me and now seeing someone try to diminish the very thing that gave me hope and has given our family back a wife, mother and a sober, happy woman.
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