What is the worst moment in your life, yet you would never want to trade that moment for anything (this is a POSITIVE thread).

I get to go first.

Back in 1998 I was diagnosed with a brain tumor. I had horrible headaches that never went away, and got worse with time. When the catscan revealed that there was a tumor the size of a tennis ball, it was time to go in. What was worse I was also carrying a B strain of strep, and they could not operate until it was clear. I had a week to stew on this.

I got through it, the tumor benign. The recovery was long and hard, and to this day I still have trouble with my memory and motor functions to a small degree. But I am alive. I have never felt more alive, and I recieved a nice little warning, ENJOY YOUR LIFE WHILE YOU CAN!!!

The best part of it all, was that my ENTIRE family was too busy to even show up for the surgery, save one person, my older brother. He and I had a falling out a year or so earlier, and he so readily was there for me. During recovery, he read to me to keep me company. It is the single most precious memory I have, and I would never trade it for anything, ever. Well I would sell it for money, if the price was right.

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just happens, and it happens to all of us. If we learn from our mistakes, we don't tend to repeat them.

"Pressure makes diamonds"

"The end of the race is only the beginning"

State Cross Country is this Saturday. anyone else have any cool quotes or motivators?

Dave, how long did the headaches go on for before you found out the cause? I'm just curious about the amount of time it took to grow that large.

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3% Body Fat. 1% Brain Activity.

I work as a Wedding DJ every weekend, and one Saturday night when I got home at about 1:30 a.m., I noticed here car wasn't in the garage. No big deal, she was probably over at her parents. Since I, like most people know where everything in my house is located, I felt no need to turn on the lights as I came up the stairs. Once I got inside, I took my tuxedo bag from over my shoulder and threw it on top of the washer and dryer like I always did. It hit the floor! I turned on the light to the utility room, to find my washer and dryer missing. I went into the kitchen to find all of the cabinet doors open, but stripped bare inside. I made my way through the house, and there was nothing.... no furniture anywhere. When I got back to our bedroom, I found all of my clothes lying in a pile in the floor of the bay window.

I called her cell phone... no answer. I called her parents... no answer. I called the police and the hospitals... no one knew of her.

Monday morning at work, I was called to the lobby at the office, where I was met by the county sherif... and promptly served with divorce papers.

No fights, no arguments, nothing... she just left.

We were together 14 months... and it took almost 16 to get the divorce finalized. Doesn't make sence that in Tennessee you can get married for as little as $35.00 for the license, but it cost me almost $40k to make her go away for good.

It was a very difficult time in my life, and the stress from it caused me to go from 211 lbs. down to 149 lbs. in about 6 months.

The NEW single life was good. Had more fun in those 4 years than I had in the previous 29 combined!!

I got remarried in 1997 to my lovely wife, and we have two adorable little boys I wouldn't trade anything in the world for. I'm stronger now because of it all, but I wouldn't want to go thru that again for anything.

The only thing I miss from those single days is my 29 inch waist. Well, I kinda miss the 19 year old college girls too..

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Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Lebanon, Tennessee

To answer you question of how long I had headaches (about two years), I have to give a short history of how it is believed to have started.

In late January of 1997, I was coming home from Snowbird Ski Resort, and lost control of my car in a snow storm. My car careened off the side of the mountian and tumbled for about 200 feet before it slammed into a small group of trees. Luckily for me, that group of trees, just wide enough to stop my car, stopped the car from plunging another thousand feet or so.

No one saw the accident. I waited in that car for an hour or so, and no one came. I had to dig and climb my way out. Luckily for me I had my seatbelt on.

During the crash, I hit my head twice in the front and snapped it back pretty hard, and that is where they believe the trauma occurred that started the tumor. Nothing came up after the initial injury, and something of this nature may have set it off.

I also separated both my shoulders during the crash, suffered a few bruises, concussion, cuts, etc. When I came out of the car, I fell into the trees and was able to snap my shoulders back into place. Then spend about 45 minutes climbing up the side of the mountian in the snow.

When I arrived back to the road, a bus stopped and asked me if I was ok. I said, "I crashed my car". He asked again and I just repeated my self. He then drove off. About half an hour later the sherrifs came and rescued me.

What is it with bus drivers? If you aren't at the bus stop they won't pick you up!

This is one thing that happened that I WOULD TRADE. It was really cold out there!

Dave

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