"Deceptive as possible." I am a 47 year old man, who is monogamously married to my soulmate of 27+years. She loves gardening as much as I do. We have a bond that goes way beyond marriage. <P> I'm guessing this is an HTML site? I was a brick and stone mason, 7th generation, from 1980-1995. My body developed a nerve disease in 1995 called Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (One of the moist painful diseases known)...which ended my stone masonry in 1995. It took 3 years to be correctly diagnosed and every penny we had saved. <P> in 1998, I went to college to learn about computers...thinking of possible jobs. I had a 3.51 GPA, but I started listening to doctors and pain specialists, and before I knew it, I was taking dilaudid and listening to medical experts telling me that I would be in a wheelchair at best by 2002. I stopped going to college because I was afraid to be around others. <P> I spent a full decade taking meds that made me a useless human. Yeah, sure, my kids (Now Adults) remember dad playing pokemon with them....and I guess that was special. Raising them on foodstamps sucked. <P> In June of 2010, I stopped the meds (Morphine)and others. And that is where life has began again. <P> I stand 6'-1" 225, my wife is 5'-0 and size 5. We believe in 100% organic gardening because we want to give back the best there is. In 2012, we fed 4 families and countless others food that tasted beyond great. I was just learning about organic growing... Did you know that Turnips are sweet and make you question everything you have eaten in life? How about squash that................ A lot more
Hello there Mr A and a warm welcome to our forums from Scotland in the UK. :-D It sounds as though you've managed to take control of your life again after so much pain and hardship. I'm so pleased that you and your wife enjoy gardening so much and help others out. I look forward to getting to know you.
Hi Mr. A and a warm welcome to GardenStew. To answer your HTML question, we don't allow it for security purposes but you can use BBCode instead. You can read more about it here: http://www.bbcode.org/ Your story is inspiring. Looking forward to having you around here and best of luck.
Welcome Mr. A from Virginia. Sounds like you have turned your life around for the better. And I'm sure you have found out that gardening helps in more ways then one.
Hi Mr. A, from cold and snowy Ohio. Glad to have you with us and I hope your health only continues to improve with your gardening.
A big welcome Mr. A from a Stewbie in Wisconsin. So glad you are doing better. Yes we to try and grow and eat as organically as possible. Things taste way so much better and are better for you. Glad you found this great gardening community with folks from all over the world.
Hi Mr. A. Welcome to the Stew. Glad to hear you have turned your life areound. Hope you enjoy this website!
