Even though I knew I was crazy to do it- I let them talk me into it AGAIN.

I got a call from a major energy corporation to do the communications and information management on a multi-billion dollar project along the border between the U.S. and Canada on over to Alaska to check on the contractors living on Unalaska / Andalusian area keeping an eye on Russia. It’s only like 35 miles to the Russian mainland from Unalaska and certain times of year an ice bridge connects us directly to them.

Yes. Russia and Alaska are divided by the Bering Strait, which is about 55 miles at its narrowest point. In the middle of the Bering Strait are two small, sparsely populated islands: Big Diomede, which sits in Russian territory, and Little Diomede, which is part of the United States. At their closest, these two islands are a little less than two and a half miles apart, which means that, on a clear day, you can definitely see one from the other. The Diomede Islands are often blanketed by persistent fog, which makes visibility difficult. On a clear day, though, a person standing at sea level can see a little less than three miles across the ocean. You can see farther if you go higher—at the highest altitude on Little Diomede (919 feet), you can see for about 37 miles. (Between mid-December and mid-June, when the water between the two islands freezes, an intrepid explorer can just walk from one to the other.)

So, I started in Tioga North Dakota on the Bakken formation. North to the border of Canada about an hour’s drive.  At that point, I decided to hop on over to Unalaska and check things out before the snow started. So we flew over to Unalaska. It wasn’t good. The contractor had gotten cancer and died and his wife was still alive but her hand was literally rotting off. She also pointed to a light that was blinking on a pole that should not have been on. Because that meant someone was using the microwave signal. She said the sheep had all gotten a strange mutation growing extra misshapen horns and the fish had started growing extra eyes.

Anyway, we get her to an Alaskan hospital and go back to Tioga.

This is a long story. Anyway - to make it short – it got down to 60 below zero, and due to the inexperience of a lot of the contractors out there from everywhere on the planet – things started blowing up.

On the occasion of one of the explosions I was trapped in a missile silo with a bunch of other contractors in less than clean and very close quarters. Eventually I started getting an infection. It started as a uti but then I just got worse and worse. I started looking through all of the emergency meds and found some CIPRO. My already taxed liver could not handle it. So- I was detoxing off of alcohol, had a really bad infection, got fluoroquinolone poisoning along with exposure to deadly gas. And it was over.

Next thing I knew – I woke up in a hospital unable to move or talk.

But- I’m much better now, thanks. I cut out tons. If you want to know more – just ask.

Blue

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And, by the way, I have been completely free of drugs and alcohol for 18 months.