Things were slowly coming back to me as the days progressed from my trip to Mexico. I had the usual frustrations that came to visit me every morning until I fell back to sleep in the evening. Our following meetup came to pass and then all of the built up stress dissipated to nothing. About a week later I was surprised to receive a visit from a familiar stranger. ****Siren Alarms Go Off**** My girlfriend made sure that I was capable of making it safely into the ambulance. I seized again. In mass, we pushed through the emergency doors and I slowly started to come back to life. The hospital staff was polite and within no time it was an early morning party with the family, my girlfriend and male nurses. Forty-five minutes later the nurse discharged me and I was reliving my experience in Philadelphia, puzzled in disbelief. I couldn't help but think that this experience was a planned attempt to force me to do something. Continuing to run a series of different possibilities in my head I had to set it aside once I felt the exhaustion hitting me like a freight train.
It took a little bit of time for me to get back into the swing of things. As I started to slip into my groove again, I had become close friends with a beta fish who taught me a valuable lesson about discipline. It wasn't until after he died that I really understood what it meant to have order in one's life. Since his passing I have made a valuable oath that has completely rewritten my entire being. Each day being a step towards a lighter and brighter future.
Moving away from the spiritual talk, things have changed for my monthly meetups. I ended up splitting our Oakland Meetups into two (one for beginners and the other for more seasoned players) so that people can get the best of both worlds. I also decided to create content for my Steem account 
So my apologies for not keeping you in the know. Sometimes we just get caught up in our personal situations that taking a breather seems unnecessary at times, even if its just typing a bunch of characters to a screen. Hope you are all alive and well!
