Alexandra Dixon

Fort Frye High School

Class of 2019

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Alexandra Dixon - Class of 2019 - Fort Frye High School

First Name	Alexandra
Last Name	Dixon
Graduation Year	Class of 2019
Gender	Female
Current Location	Beverly, Ohio
Hometown	Beverly, Ohio
Relationship Status	Widowed
About Me	Following high school graduation, I briefly attended Marietta College with the intent to major in biology and minor in art, aspiring to attend the Physician's Assistant program there. However, I dropped out in October 2019, during the first semester, due to my inability to afford continuation. I moved up to Mount Vernon, OH immediately after where I lived in a house with my boyfriend (Taylor Ugie) at the time and the housemates that we rented the extra rooms to. I started working at Verizon as a sales rep in November 2019 and quickly found that I was a pretty killer cellular salesperson. Taylor and I also managed our joint small business, Lizard & Crow Productions, where we 3D printed and hand-painted miniatures and constructed modular terrain pieces for tabletop RPGs such as Dungeons & Dragons. In February 2020, Taylor and I announced our engagement and started planning our wedding for October later that year. Life was good. I was happy and I was so in love with my best friend. What more could I ask for? I started a second job as a night monitor at Riverside Recovery Services also around this time, but resigned and transferred back to full-time at Verizon after about a month and a half of getting next to no sleep. Taylor and I ended up renting to a particularly problematic set of roommates in March 2020 that would prove to wreak insurmountable havoc upon our lives right around the time COVID-19 locked us all down; thus, the eviction restrictions during COVID-19 left us with our hands tied, forced to endure living with these deplorable tenants - who constantly stole our belongings, dealt drugs out of our home with neverending traffic in and out of the house, and never paid us rent after the first month. Taylor lost his job as a car salesman the same month COVID-19 overwhelmed the population during a mass layoff and I lost my job at Verizon by the end of June 2020. As time went on, it became apparent that our finances were trending toward losing the house altogether because of those tenants. It was also apparent that our wedding would need to be postponed until further notice. To cope with the overwhelming stress of our lives seemingly falling apart in front of us with little power to remedy it, we turned to abusing the very substances being peddled out of our home. When October 2020 came, Taylor fell ill with endocarditis and due to the extensive damage it caused to his heart. He had to be hospitalized 5 days before our original wedding date and was rehabilitated for a month in a nursing home before requiring open heart surgery for a double valve replacement. Taylor and I moved to Dresden, OH (right outside of Zanesville) to be closer to his parents prior to his surgery and he had the operation in January of 2021. Taylor's recovery progressed quickly and we resumed wedding planning once again. We even started back up Lizard & Crow operations and were commissioned to collaborate on a board game Kickstarter with several miniature sculptors as campaign writers. In March of 2021, I was granted my chemical dependency counselor assistant (CDCA) license and began supervising a sober house for CRN Healthcare in Columbus. In April 2021, I switched employment and began individually counseling patients receiving MAT services at The Mighty Acorn Counseling also located in Columbus. I found a passion for counseling others about their substance use, using both my formal education and personal experience to foster growth and recovery in my patients. My absolute worst nightmare and biggest fear was realized in the early morning of May 11th 2021 when Taylor suddenly and unexpectedly passed away despite the desperate attempts of my own and the responding EMTs to save him. It was 5 days before his 30th birthday and we had been together for two and a half years. We never got the chance to marry and losing the love of my life has been the most surreal yet agonizing pain I've ever experienced during the course of my existence. After returning to work from my bereavement leave, I moved in with a friend of mine (Shawn) who was living in an apartment in Columbus and The Mighty Acorn transferred my position to conduct preventative and compliance counseling for patients at a pain clinic in Marion. However, I was suddenly terminated for unknown reasons that they would not explain to me. I later found out that this was a regular occurence with the company amongst other nefarious ongoings. After I lost my job, my substance use worsened as I grew more and more hopeless and depressed, fueled by the suffocating grief I was experiencing from losing Taylor. I decided to use the time to focus on completing my continuing education through OSU's social work program for the renewal of my CDCA license. In December of 2021, I began working for MPower doing door-to-door sales for renewable energy and also had the opportunity to attend an all-expense-paid business trip and was flown to New York City for a conference and company Christmas party. I stopped working at MPower in February 2022 and struggled with several health problems due to gradually worsening chronic back, joint, and nerve pain that had onset after sustaining injuries as a passenger in a car wreck that occured in November 2021. I began attending a methadone clinic and seeing a rheumatologist in April 2022 to help address the pain and I had to have carpal tunnel release surgery on my right wrist the same month because of severe nerve compression that had developed. I was eventually diagnosed with Sjogren's syndrome - an autoimmune disorder that attacks the body's mucus membranes. In June of 2022, I moved back down to Beverly where I am currently residing with my mom, step-dad, and Shawn (who is now my boyfriend) as I search f...(read more)
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