Videos

Introduction

1. Soft White Underbelly
   • Introduction
     • Videos
       • Video #1
         Channel:- Soft White Underbelly
         Date Published:- 2020-February-22nd
         Date Added:- 2021-March-7th
         Link

Stories

1. Patrick-January 2023
   • Profile
     • Soft White Underbelly update interview and portrait of Patrick, a recovering crack addict in Los Angeles.
   •  Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- Soft White Underbelly
       Date Published:- 2023-Janaury-9th
       Date Added:- 2023-Janaury-9th
       Link
2. Patrick-Update (September, 2021)
   • Profile
     • Soft White Underbelly update interview and portrait of Patrick, a crack addict in Los Angeles.
   •  Videos
     • Video #1
       Channel:- Soft White Underbelly
       Date Published:- 2021-September-4th
       Date Added:- 2021-September-4th
       Link
3. Recovering Crack Addict-Patrick (March 2021 update)
   • Profile
     • Soft White Underbelly update interview and portrait of Patrick, a recovering crack addict in Los Angeles.
   •  Videos
     • Segments
       • Soft White Underbelly – Patrick – Life Fights
         Date Published:- 2021-March-27th
         Date Added:- 2021-March-27th
         Link
     • Full
       • Video #1
         Channel:- Soft White Underbelly
         Date Published:- 2021-March-27th
         Date Added:- 2021-March-27th
         Link

Transcripts

Recovering Crack Addict-Patrick (March 2021 update)

1. Clean Addict
   • Clean Addict in recovery
   • God
     • Turn your whole life over to God
     • Grieve
       • Still going through the grieving process
2. Cancer
   • Encounters
     • Twice I have been diagnosed with cancer already
     • Melanoma Cancer ( Skin Cancer )
       • Infection Point
         • Head
         • Lymph Nodes
       • Treatment
         • Chemotherapy
         • 3 years of infusion
       • Helped
         • Helped cover for drug addiction relapses
       • Regular Checkups
         • Originally, every 3 months
         • Now, every 6 months
       • Reemergence
         • The last check-up they found something
           • In my neck/lymph nodes
           • In my Liver
         • A couple of years ago
           • We were worried
           • And, had to get a biopsy
   • Perceptive
     • This addiction is so nearly and so depressing
     • My addiction is the only thing that is bigger than my cancer diagnosis
     • This disease leaves me off better than I would have been ever otherwise
     • Helping People
     • Worried about cancer but not worried about everything else
     • For me, I am worried about everything else, but not the cancer
     • That is why we make such a good team
3. Addiction
   • Disease
     • If you get through this disease, it gets you better than if you have never been through it

Patrick-Update (September, 2021)

1. Boston
   • Teen Challenge
     • April thru July 2021
       • Initial was to be there for 6 months
       • But, only last 3 months
       • Left in the middle of July 2021
   • Have been there before
2. Institution
   • I am institutionalized
   • I have been in rehabs twenty-one times
3. Getting High
   • The First Night I left, I had a desire to get high
   • A week later, I started getting high
4. Scripture
   • 2 Corinthians 12:9 – Paul’s Thorn and God’s Grace ( Link )
     • …Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me.
     • But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me.
     • That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.…
5. Weakness
   • Pride
   • Ego
6. Needs
   • Humility
7. OD
   • Fentanyl
   • OD
     • Took 6 shots of Nakine
8. Understand
   • I understand nothing
   • I spend too much time thinking to understand so little
9. Home
   • We are all just walking each other home