I just watched the new Intervention on A&E. It broke my heart. The one thing I love about that show is the end...when you see the addict healing with days sober under their belt. Well I was really waiting on the end of this one because the guy fought so hard against his family to not go and then ended up going.
SPOILER****
I sat here in shock as they just started running across the screen a bunch of sentences about him going thru the whole treatment and such and then said he was...

From Sober For Good by Anne M Fletcher

"Do whatever it takes, if it's not illegal or immoral."
"Put sobriety first--change anything in your life that endangers it: relationships, jobs, hobbies, places, habits."
"I never bought into the AA powerless thing. I don't think I'm powerless. I had too many years of not taking charge of m life, and I don't want to lose that now. Becomeing sober felt like taking contorl--the more I saw the results of staying...

damn i just wrote a huge post and lost it all..... short version.... was having problems with my new vonage and went to a bunch of trouble moving/trying to fix it to find out i just needed to move the cordless phone as far away as i could from the vonage box. ha - ha. oh well it's working so far (knock on wood)!
i made it past my usual watering hole on the way home, so safe and sound for the night.

from sailorjohn's signature:No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one...