Hi Im Sharon and Im an Alcoholic.
By the Grace of my HP and people
like you here in SR I havent found
it necessary to pick up a drink of
alcohol since 8-11-90.
For that and you I am truely
grateful.
Below is a passage taken from
the Big Book. It gives us an
example of powerlessness.
Are you POWERLESS? How
Powerless are you?
For me Id head to the Club
on a nice evening for ladies
night..FREE drinks....
A night of drinking, dancing,
music, flirting, and other
permiscuous behavior...all
while my little family was
safe and sound at home.
2am rolls around, im flying
home, run off the road, end
up in the hospital for 10 days
with a puncture spleen that
had to be removed and totally
messed up....along with a
high alcohol blood content
in my system...
3 months healing swearing
no more drinking for me....
Healed quite nicely....
Heading back to the
club repeating the same
behavior, to only return home
and try to end my miserable
life with booze and pills...
YIKES..!
A family intervention was called
and I was escorted out the back
door of my home to the back
seat of a police car....
Off to rehab i went for 28 days....
Was I powerless or not....? You
betcha I was...
Just never had the will power to
completely end the samity of
drinking on my own. Damn.
For From "A Drunk, Like You"
"I drank for the whole flight—before dinner, during
dinner, and after dinner. As we approached our
destination, I searched in my pocket for a pen to fill
out the in-flight magazine response card. I found this
large coin. I took it out to see what it was. It was my
ninety-day pocket piece, and I was reminded of what
I was doing. And the thought came to me: Wow, those
guys at the meeting were right—I am powerless over
alcohol. I put that coin back in my pocket and from that day
to this, some 15˝ years later, I have had no urge to drink."
Thanks for letting me share.