8 years ago my life changed forever. I've never thought about this day any other year, maybe it was all the rain making me reflective, but this morning it popped in my head that today was the day when I ended up in intensive care in DKA. I was a mostly vegetarian who exercised every day, still am, and all I could think when I had the energy to conjure a thought was: when will I wake up from this very strange nightmare? I don't really know where I'm going with this, but the limitations I feel, the shackles I feel I've had around me for the last 8 years come into full view sometimes. I remember my dad worked security for this artist Chris Pureka and he gave me a signed CD from the show. I especially liked the first song Back in the Ring. I actually named a post about that song a few months before my dad died. I was going through a lot before he passed. I was up visiting him the winter (and summer) before he died and there was so much I needed to change in my life to reall...