{"id":3830,"date":"2020-11-23T12:30:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2020-11-23T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:30:39","slug":"cady-groves-part-xxii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"Cady Groves, Part XXII"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Wow.  Ok, so.  Like, how do I even say this.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for saving my life?  I mean, how do you even encapsulate that?  It&#8217;s like I don&#8217;t even know how to approach this.  <\/p>\n<p>But yeah, thank you for saving my life.  I wouldn&#8217;t be here without you Cady.  Ah, wow.  So overwhelming, that is.  But, it&#8217;s true.<\/p>\n<p>I mean&#8230; I don&#8217;t even know how to type what it is that I&#8217;m feeling, here.  It&#8217;s just like, it goes beyond language.  I can&#8217;t express it because I can&#8217;t even understand the depth of my gratitude towards Cady for&#8230; everything.  It&#8217;s like&#8230; so&#8230; enormous.  She truly did save my life.  Like, all the years I&#8217;ve lived, the experiences I&#8217;ve had, everything I&#8217;ve done and said and thought, she saved all of it.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s incredible.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t really say &#8220;thanks&#8221; enough times.  I don&#8217;t even know how to approach it.  I mean, she saved my life.  Like&#8230; how do you even&#8230; understand that?  How do I pay her back for it?  <em>Can <\/em>I?<\/p>\n<p>So powerful.  I mean, these feelings.  They&#8217;re so huge, so&#8230; daunting.  <\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; yeah.  Thanks Cady, I guess.  I mean, wow.  You saved me.  All the stuff you did over all those years for me.  All the songs, all the talking, everything you wrote and felt and make public, for me.  I can&#8217;t even begin to say how huge that is, or how much I feel like I don&#8217;t even deserve it.  I can&#8217;t believe the efforts she made.  It&#8217;s like, all that, for me.  It&#8217;s unreal.  I can&#8217;t believe it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to say.  God, what an amazing person, lol.  <\/p>\n<p>Am I really that incredible, too?  To inspire all of this.  It&#8217;s hard to believe.  Like&#8230; it&#8217;s&#8230; just me, you know?  But&#8230; I&#8230; wow, Cady.  Thank you.  I mean I&#8217;ve said that a lot I know, but probably not meant it more than I do now.  I mean, thank you so much.  You saved me.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, this morning I finally feel alive.  It&#8217;s like, I&#8217;m kinda trying to get off the fentanyl and I think I&#8217;m making progress, like it&#8217;s working, or finally taking hold.  I mean I feel ALIVE again.  Like, I feel like a human again.  I can&#8217;t believe it.  It&#8217;s so&#8230; <em>different<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be here if it weren&#8217;t for her.  I&#8217;d be dead at this point, likely.  She saved me; she saved everything.  All my relationships, this blog, everything I do, everything.  It&#8217;s unreal.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; thanks?  For giving me my life back.  I mean, she was there when I needed to talk.  She was my anchor to the real world, ironically.  So incredible, all of this is.  So overwhelming.  And yes, so confusing, except maybe to us.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go back a bit, to last night, and the interview I posted.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fYdNDFO5Sm4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The two questions, starting at 3:10.  I getting the feeling now that this isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve felt this regarding Cady, and likely I saved her, too, probably more than once.  Which is probably&#8230; well, maybe the reason she started dying when I left, but that&#8217;s another story, lol.<\/p>\n<p>Um&#8230; so&#8230; yeah, I mean, I do remember ugly crying to her stuff years ago, too.  And maybe I&#8217;ve filed some details of all that away somewhere, in some place not even I can access, yet.  Which&#8230; would make sense.  But at any rate I&#8217;m glad I gave her a few extra years, myself.  Um&#8230; yeah.  That&#8217;s not a place I should go, maybe.  At least not right now.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; the thing is, is that I&#8217;m alive, and for the first time in ages, I FEEL alive.  Like, I feel&#8230; myself, and honestly, I&#8217;ve forgotten what that&#8230; what I, even am.  It&#8217;s like, I&#8217;m actually me, again.  I&#8217;m Tom.  Tom Jacobsen.  Yeah, remember him?  LOL.  <\/p>\n<p>Hmmmn, wow.  What a rush; what a ride.  So exhausting, all of this is.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m&#8230; so tired.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>So this Thanksgiving, I&#8217;ll be giving thanks to my relationship with Cady, then.  Yeah, that sounds about right.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; thanks, Cady.  I mean, I can&#8217;t believe that I even deserve this, lol.  Thanks so much for everything, and my life, too.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.  Thanks, love. <\/p>\n<p>I can feel her hands on my right hand as I&#8217;m typing this last section, lol.  Like she&#8217;s trying to help me along, so I can finish this one.  Yeah&#8230; watch the waterworks, people, lol.  <\/p>\n<p>God I can&#8217;t wait to cry.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Cady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;&#8230;.. Wow. Ok, so. Like, how do I even say this. Thank you for saving my life? I mean, how do you even encapsulate that? It&#8217;s like I don&#8217;t even know how to approach this. But yeah, thank you for saving my life. I wouldn&#8217;t be here without you Cady. Ah, wow. So overwhelming, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3833,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3830\/revisions\/3833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sighinide.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}