My life beyond Evergreen...

As for me...i never left who i was..always the same..hard working diligent..cling to the word of god..goodness..kindness..giving of myself always and still make cookies and brownies..just to share with people..and when people would say Have a Beary Nice Day..Barry Day...that meant a lot to me..that's a
like a sign of appreciation...I kind of went overboard..work wise after my 10 th. knee operation could no longer run..so i become a workaholic..as a school maintenance man and a self employed cleaning contractor..with 7 accounts daily...20 hour days and 8 hours every saturday and sunday for the next twenty years ..over 115 hours working each week..this helped fund my yearly mission trips to the Philippines where i was also a lay minister in the catholic church there...people always told me i would crash and burn..i would say no..i am like the energizer bunny..invincible..then at age 49..just working 22 hours in a stormy Minnesota winter day..jan. 6 th. 2009..i showered and ready to sleep a couple hours..and i walked into the living room my brain exploded and and heart stopped..blood everywhere..nose..mouth..ears..i called 911..then like in slow motion...fell to the floor...like a dream...i had a brain aneurism burst and heart attack and stroke all at the same time..operations to repair all..heart..brain two stents in heart..woke up 3 days later..could not walk or talk..paralyzed on left side of body..speech apraxia..could not form words..1/8 brain whited out..nerve damage on left side of body..so much damage..they said i was still young and in great physical shape i can come back from this..then 2 weeks later another heart attack.brain tumor...stroke..coma's..seizures..complete renal failure...2 years of intense physical..occupational and speech therapy and more surgeries to follow..20 all together..but i came back..walkng..talking and by the grace of god..survived...i was asked by the social workers and therapist..how i came back..i said by believing gods word and believing in his goodness..kindness and clinging to the cross....i said i only seek to have humility and grace in the eyes of God..i fear not death..bags packed at a moments notice...so my Evergreen experience..i had overcome that because i refused to let it change me and who i was...because God is greater and Jesus Christ my Savior in Heaven...to God be the Glory.....people still call me by my childhood nickname.... The Bear