[0:01] All right, guys. [0:02] >> All right, guys. [0:06] >> So, softball is uh people in recovery. [0:10] >> It's safe haven for people to come on a [0:12] Friday night. [0:15] >> He was very excited about playing. You [0:17] know, he would call me all the time, I'm [0:19] going to go play softball and [0:21] >> run that. I [0:22] >> think still to this day, he's probably [0:24] the best player we've had on the Moro [0:27] team. He's still awesome [0:28] >> the the lifelong MVP of the of the [0:32] Rippers and he got to start that with us [0:34] and [0:38] >> Okay, this is Chance. He played little [0:41] league for years. I never missed a [0:44] practice or a game. Um I would go to [0:47] like all of them. Probably could have [0:49] gotten a scholarship and went on to [0:51] college, maybe even went pro. [0:56] He was a very goofy child. Like from the [1:00] beginning, he would light up a room in [1:03] his laugh. He had a contagious laugh. [1:06] The first time he smoked weed, he was [1:08] 10. 15 is when he got into like [music] [1:10] the meth and the oxies and [1:15] I think there was a little bit of heroin [1:17] in there. [1:19] He was about [1:21] 19. He called me and he told me that he [1:24] was using fentanyl. [1:26] It was the worst nightmare that you [1:28] could ever imagine coming true. [1:40] Chance said that fentanel would call his [1:42] name all the time. It was like a demon [1:44] in his head. He would try and quit, you [1:47] know, he would want to quit and he just [1:49] couldn't. [music] [1:50] Yeah. He um it took over his entire [1:53] life. So he [music] did get sober from [1:57] fentanyl for I think it was a year. He [2:00] was in Teen Challenge and he did [music] [2:02] amazing. He was working out every day. [2:04] He graduated from longterm. [2:09] But that's when he started using it [2:10] again. [2:15] It was like 4:00 a.m. I woke up and my [2:17] stomach was really upset and I was like, [2:20] "What? what is why, you know, I just [2:22] wasn't feeling right at all. Then his [2:25] girlfriend texts me and she was like, [2:27] I've been calling his phone over and [2:29] over and over. One of his friends [2:31] answered finally and said that he's [2:33] going to the hospital. [2:37] So, we got there and he was um hooked up [2:41] to all the machines. they, you know, it [2:44] was breathing for him [2:47] and they said, um, he was found in a [2:51] house in Kettle River. He had to be [2:53] airlifted. When they found him, he was [2:55] aspirating. [2:57] So, I called everyone and I'm like, you [2:58] might want to come up here. [3:01] I made a post on Facebook cuz he had he [3:04] knows so many people, hundreds [music] [3:06] of people came to visit him and people [3:09] that were using, people that were in [3:11] recovery. [3:13] And this is when they were going to like [3:14] unplug the life support. [3:17] So I just remember walking down the hall [3:19] to where like his body was and it was [3:22] just haunting. Like it haunts me every [3:25] day. [3:30] And it was just like screaming, crying, [3:33] screaming, [music] crying. I had my hand [3:34] in his heart the whole time. And I felt [3:36] his last heartbeat. [3:38] And [music] I couldn't even like [3:40] breathe. [3:46] I don't [music] want this to happen to [3:48] anybody else. It's horrible. My life is [3:51] [music] forever changed and [3:56] it [music] can be prevented for other [3:58] people out there. [4:00] You can make it. Recovery is possible. [4:03] Living without it is [music] possible. [4:05] You know, there's so much to live for. [4:10] There you go. [4:11] >> And instilled the [music] community that [4:14] I built my sobriety around from square [4:16] one. And I also saw the people that I [4:18] was closest to succeed right in front of [4:20] me. [4:20] >> It uh it brought a whole thought process [4:23] [music] [4:23] where this was never possible to seeing [4:26] it being possible. [4:27] >> I feel like that's really important [4:29] [music] when you're trying to change [4:30] your life. And having people around you [4:32] that want to do the same thing, it only [4:34] makes you want to do better. So it's [4:36] Chancell is the initials and then the um [4:39] ribbon is overdose awareness. [4:41] >> Yep. So we put overdose awareness and [4:44] and put them on our sleeve and and um [4:46] kept hitting balls for chance all [4:48] season. [4:51] >> So for me, softball Friday nights are [4:54] still a big memory piece of dang, I wish [4:58] he was here, or dang, why can't Chance [5:00] be here? and that we're gonna keep [5:01] fighting for recovery for people [5:03] regardless, you know, and not give up. [5:06] >> I'm very [music] grateful for Rocky and [5:09] everything that you did for him and and [5:11] you know that we're always going to [5:13] fight for for a chance and and for those [5:15] that are in recovery now.