Recovering People question.........

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Recovering People question.........
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Tue, 07-18-2006 - 3:36pm
Was there a "straw that broke the camel's back?" A "last hurrah". What was your bottom?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2003
Tue, 07-18-2006 - 5:33pm

Oh Beth,


You are really making me work for my sobriety today!!

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Tue, 07-18-2006 - 6:17pm

My friend Brenda


Don't ask for people to post if you don't want some maniac at the key board.


(HAHAHAHAH.....evil laughter.....HAHAHAHAHAHA SNORT- oops-)

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-07-2003
Wed, 07-19-2006 - 8:30am
There were many little things that led up to the day I asked for help and went to my first AA meeting, but one in particular really stands out.
I was drinking with my neighbor (my drinking buddy) and she was miserable. She said she was "sick and tired of being sick and tired". I looked in her eyes, bloodshot and watering, at the lines and broken blood vessels on her face, and the puffiness in her cheeks and for the first time I felt as if I was looking in a mirror. I saw myself as if I were standing outside my body. At that moment I knew that if I did not find help I would die.
She is still drinking today and I love her dearly and pray for her continually...
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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-25-2003
Wed, 07-19-2006 - 8:36pm

I started AA recovery to end my long term depression.
And it fled at 3 months sober...it has not returned.

I have continued with AA to live the niracles of recovery.

I do hope you will join in the joy!

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-28-2005
Fri, 07-21-2006 - 8:05am

 

Amy

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2003
Fri, 07-21-2006 - 1:54pm

Hi Amy,


I was in detox for 8 days.

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-17-2001
Fri, 07-21-2006 - 3:46pm

HI Beth,

It was an event, an epiphany, a spiritual experience an out of this world experience. After a night of drinking my usual amount, which was a lot. I went to bed drunk knowing I was to work the following day. It had been an evening of cocktails and beer. Martini's and Schlitz, if memory serves. I mixed a damn good martini. I had cracked a fresh fifth that night. I turned in at about 1100PM.

This happened 38 1/2 years ago. I remember it as if it happened yesterday. Sometime in the middle of the night (it's impossible to pinpoint an exact time) I awoke. I was experiencing some sort of physical truama. Cold sweats, shakes and hallucinations. But, but there appeared at my bedroom window a ghostly apparition. It did not speak. It motioned no special way. Yet, yet that image is burned into my memory forever. What was it? A messenger? Was I nuts? Bill W. speaks of a similar experience. A vision appeared to Bill W. after a relapse in the hspital at the foot of his bed. I am no Bill W. I am no Don Qouixite,either. Never fought with a windmill in my life.

I talked the vision was gone. I said, "I have to stop drinking, I have to go to the hospital" Carol had awoken, now was the message passed to her to give to me? Sleepily, Carol replied, "Paul, why not try AA." I got myself half way together and went downstairs, I didn't seem drunk. I got the freshly opened bottle of gin and poured what was left of it down the drain. This is just the preface. There is much more to the story.

But there is only so much space and time right now. Suffice it to know that I never drank again. I did take Carol's advice. I joined Alcoholics Anonymous. I listened, I learned, I worked, I served and am a recovering a safe, sane, healthy senior citizen. A loving husband, father, grandfather and above average for all the women here at ivillage are good looking and all the guys are above average. Ladies, too.(Cindy reminded, me)

Service in recovery,

Paul

Castaway


A Friend in Recovery


Paul

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-20-2006
Fri, 07-21-2006 - 3:53pm

The straw was a huge all night and morning binge. I don't even know how much I drank, really. The last thing I did and remember was walking down my street with nothing but underwear and a bra. Oh I had a towel of course! Staggering at 4:30am. Must have looked pretty to all the older folks that get up. That very morning I had to go to a wedding shower and I was still drunk driving there at 11am! That ended up being the worse and best day of my life!

Jolene :)

Jolene

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2003
Fri, 07-21-2006 - 3:59pm

Oh Jolene,


I love the new name

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-01-2006
Fri, 07-21-2006 - 4:44pm

The prospect of turning 40, hungover and sitting on the toilet all morning was not appealing.

Blech.

Lucky

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