The worst day sober

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
The worst day sober
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Wed, 07-26-2006 - 7:31am

When I was first getting sober, I heard people say that their worst day sober was better than their best day drunk.......I thought that they were idiots.


Now I know that they were right.


In sobriety I have faced many things...and not picked up a drink.


What have you made it through...without a drink?

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Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Wed, 07-26-2006 - 7:42am
I watched my Mom slip away into Alzheimers........

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Wed, 07-26-2006 - 8:35am
I visited Mom frequently, even when she no longer knew me.

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Wed, 07-26-2006 - 8:36am
I said "Goodbye" to her...and wrote her eulogy....and sang at her funeral

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Wed, 07-26-2006 - 8:37am
I took my sister into my home, knowing that her health issues would not get better. I repaid the debt I owed her for kicking me out of her house...telling me that my drinking was hurting her son.

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Wed, 07-26-2006 - 8:39am
I had many "ruined" holidays, following the ambulance to the hospital, or rushing my sister there myself. Her health problems meant that I had to deal with the DRs, in an adult fashion....and sobriety let me do that.

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Wed, 07-26-2006 - 8:40am

I had a summer when I had Dad with a heart attack in one hospital, Mom in the nursing home, Sis in another hospital....and a 4 year old.


But I didn't drink

Community Leader
Registered: 09-14-1997
Wed, 07-26-2006 - 8:42am

In December, 2004, along with my cousin and my other sister, I made the decision to remove the ventilator that was artificially keeping my big sister alive. I said the rosary for her, and said goodbye.


And I didn't drink

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2003
Wed, 07-26-2006 - 1:06pm

Hi Beth,


Oh my gosh, we have known each other for a while!

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2003
Wed, 07-26-2006 - 1:13pm
My first trial in sobriety was in the year 2000.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-01-2003
Wed, 07-26-2006 - 1:26pm
In 2003 I found a place on my face that I felt I needed to check out.

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