I created Burn Support Online as a means of once again helping others who are like I was after I received my burns and was in search of information.  While there are far more websites and organizations out there now helping burn survivors and families then there were when I created Burn Survivors Online, but my old website is sadly mismanaged and offers no more (in many ways less) then when I ran it, which is while Burn Support Online is now available..   After email after email of people requesting that I return to the world of burn support, I finally decided that it was time to create yet another website, with more information than the last one and in the end I successfully created a better website then Burn Survivors Online and in only 4 days.

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Burn Survivors Online as well as the so called World Burn Foundation and in particular Denise Hurley had destroyed my life, and not just financially.  To me the most important thing in life had always been Family and Friends, and while I admit that my view of friendship was far more trusting than I should have ever allowed, it was trust in general in all people that allowed me to get suckered into ever trusting Denise Hurley.  Denise used to always say Friends for life, and I took that to mean she was an honorable person, only to find out in the end that she actually meant “Friends for live savings” (mine) .

While I may not have a home, job, health insurance, or money (or the simple things such as a washing machine and dryer) they will never take my honor and/or integrity.  I lost everything for friendship and until I made that final phone call to Denise I thought she was just being misunderstood (I was still protecting her), so it was a pretty big shock to find out that the only reason we were friends was for her financial gain.

I survived a very difficult childhood, and then survived the gulf war, and then survived the burns, only to be defeated by someone I called a friend.  Now three years later I still have never allowed myself to EVER be part of any form of friendship.  You read that right…  I have not had a friend in over 3 years, and my intention is to never allow anyone to get close enough to harm me again.  Without trust there can be no love, and without love there can never be friendship.

It’s very painful to admit that I was such a fool by being a giving person and friend, and that I’m still doing things for others despite the fact my life was destroyed by a friend for financial gain.