‘I’ve never wanted to be in a paper.

You know what?

I’m not going to say, ‘I’m going to be here forever.’

It was the right decision.

I just wanted to do something with my time and energy that would give me something to be proud of.

‘I don’t want the name to go up on a billboard or on a television screen, I just want to be able to tell my story and say, “This is my story, and I can say that this is what happened to me and how I survived and what I did to recover.”‘

I can’t say that I’m proud of the experience, but I’m very proud of my journey and I want to make sure that the rest of my life is a story of recovery.

I’m still in a state of disbelief, but that’s what I’ve chosen to do.’Read more