Profile Information
Location
San Bernardino, CA
Country
United States
Postal Code
92410
What is it you do for a living? (Parenting, volunteering, CEO of social service organization, etc.)
food and beverage consultant
What organization(s) do you volunteer or work for?
Peppertree Distributors Inc. I founded this company with my business partner 45 years ago. We distribute to Restaurants
What is your interest in PACEs and resilience science?
I have had a life of chronic adversity although I have been quite successful in business,I have been plagued with health issues all of my life. After my second out of 5 of my children children died in 2016,I decided to write a book about my experiences as a father which starts when I was a child learning from my own parents.It is then I realized as I wrote the book that I have had a life of chronic adversity.I myself connected the dots after I was discharged from my two month stay in the hospital having had sepsis which had infected areas of my spine.I had seven surgeries removing pieces of infected spine and 8 blood transfusions before I was finally rid of the infection. It has taken me one year to recuperate.I am now writing my second book on my experiences . I have a heart condition,cirrhosis of the liver and am a recovering alcoholic with 35 years of sobriety. I have had nearly 20 surgeries and procedures in my life. I scored 6 ACEs. My second book deals with the affect of what you have named ACEs and tells finally what happened to me as a result of my adversities and how I had to change in order to survive. My first book, "OFF THE GRID" A Father's Journey is my story and can be ordered from every major book retailer in the US and Canada,such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble.This will tell you who I am and my interest in your concepts. I learned about ACEs through internet searches of chronic adversities in one's life and came across your site which I felt that I hit the jackpot.