Escaping demons, including demon rum, Rocks, who is studying to become a nurse at Pasco-Hernando Community College, moved to Florida. As a way of keeping busy and staying sober, Rocks resumed bowling, a sport he loved and was active with earlier in life.

Just when he began getting comfortable throwing left-handed, his right hand healed. Once again, his right thumb became infected and needed another surgery. He resumed bowling left-handed when his thumb healed for a second time. But the condition recurred. Before needing surgery for a third time on his right thumb, Rocks decided to permanently bowl left-handed.

Rocks used an analogy of a baseball pitcher who has had shoulder or arm surgery. Whereas before the pitcher could blow pitches by hitters, after the injury, he had to paint the corners of the strike zone and use a more cerebral approach.