Brian Braun:  

Life After graduation I worked in Alberta for a year and a half. I returned to Weyburn to retake 1 semester of Gr 12. I then went to the U of Regina.. In 75, I hitchhiked to Gander and took a flight to London. Within 4 hours of landing in London I had gone through 3 IRA bomb scares so I caught the next ferry to Calais. I discovered a L'arche Community for the mentally, emotionally and physically handicapped. I stayed and worked as a volunteer at this community for about 2 weeks. I then moved to a sister community in Brussels, where I stayed until Dec 75 when I returned to Calgary and then moved to Halifax to run a company for my older brother. In Dec 76, I returned to Calgary where I worked for a moving company until I returned to fulltime studies at the University of Calgary in Sept 77. I got married in March 78. We had 4 sons, who are now 25, 23, 20 and 18. In the summer of 78 I went to work for Cominco in Calgary. In January of 79, I worked for an oilfield chemical supply company. In Jun 80, I quit to work as a corrosion technician for BP Canada in Calgary. It was with BP that I first really started to develop my expertise as a corrosion specialist, publishing several papers in microbiological corrosion and computers in the corrosion industry. I left BP in 84 and went to work for Husky Oil in Lloydminster. I decided to finish my degree and started taking correspondence courses from the University of Waterloo. I finally graduated from the U of R in 88 with a B.A. in Math. In 90, I was offered a 1 year contract with a company in Libya, where I stayed until 97 working 9/3 rotations. My father passed away from throat cancer in Calgary in 93 and my wife filed for separation in 94. In 96, I was diagnosed with adult AD/HD. This was a defining moment in my life as many of my idiosyncrasies that defined my personality from an early age, but made me a difficult person to like and understand, were finally clarified and explained. From that point on my life started to improve significantly. My wife had filed for divorce in Feb 97. In Nov 97, I left Libya. In Jan 98, I traveled to Hong Kong and China. It was there that I first became interested in Traditional Chinese Medicine. I began studies in this field in Calgary and returned to China for 2 weeks in Oct to complete my studies. I was also doing some consulting as a corrosion engineer for some companies in Italy during this time. Also during 98, I spent a lot of time learning more about adult AD/HD to the point where I became an expert in one AD/HD chat-room. It was here that I met Lisa who is a high school counselor in Miami and had gone to the chat room to g...Expand for more