The 24 Hour Club Sign Up Sheet, Part 52, All Are Welcome!
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24 Hour Club Sign up Sheet Part 52, All Are Welcome!
Hi There Everyone!! So Glad you are here!
If you are new please join us in a simple commitment to stay clean and sober
for the next 24 hours!
This is Easter Weekend, let us not disappoint out children and families by being
High , Drunk, Hungover, or Emotionally unpresent. Are you in?
Just post your local time and commit!
Please sign in only once daily as this is mainly a sign up sheet to make up our
roster. Thank You!
Welcome To Our Newest Members- needtostopthis -Sparkos-
izzy8 -biminiblue- Lastqueenjess -christimc - TigerLili -
SolitaryThinker - TonyReeceAustin -eaglesa1a
Welcome back to those returning!
Congratulations!!
4Surf4Life 1 week!
Goldcoastgirl 1 week!
MyTime86 1 week!
needtostopthis 1 week!
abetterlife45 1 week!
GentleSoul 2 weeks!
CristinaN 2 weeks!
KimsFriend 4 weeks!
Taproot 30 days!
sunriseshell 1 month!
Michael66 2 years! Woohoo!
If I missed your special goal my apologies,please send me a pm. If you slipped or
relapsed , please come back!
Thank You to Miss venuscat who is working diligently behind the scenes personally
Congratulating Our Celebrants on behalf of the 24 hour club also for Reposting the
club for me when it is sleepy time here.♥
Roster will be posted at 10 pm EST USA 4/19. Google USA Eastern Standard Time to see
how your local time translates.
I can fly, I can fly!!
I have asked Coldfusion to share his story with us. He has been coming into the 24 hour
club regularly for some time now and has come a long way! I really think we can all relate
to his story. He has been clean and sober since Nov 1st, 2012.
And Here's Coldfusion..
I can't even remember my first drink, and by the time I was 16 I had a drinking habit. But it
would not be until I was 50 that drinking started getting the best of me.
In the fall of 2011, my wife and I had a serious alcohol problem, but we were far from blaming
anything on our drinking habits. I had a lot of stress at work, and we both thought and hoped
the world was going to end on December 21, 2012.
I became a hazard to myself and those around me, so we determined that I should be hospitalized
for three days of psychiatric evaluation.
But because we could not afford a hospital bill, we had to do an "involuntary" evaluation.
This meant I was taken to the hospital by the police.
A deputy and a social worker came to our home in a police cruiser, and drove me to the police
station. I could not be "interviewed" for several hours because my blood alcohol content was too
high, and I spent part of the waiting time in a cell. I was later taken to the hospital in handcuffs.
But alcohol was not the source of our woes, it was everything and everyone else. We were at
a restaurant ordering wine within half an hour of my release.
In October, 2012, we ran out of money. Our wine expenses were approaching $40 per day, and
we were both unemployed. We realized that
my alcohol withdrawal was going to be a problem, so off to the hospital we went on Halloween,
2012.
This time, I was humble and receptive to change. After a medical evaluation, I was sent to
a no-cost, inpatient detox program, where I stayed a week. Several of the other patients were
young adults addicted to heroin--in them I saw how low I could go, and how much I had to lose.
Part of the detox program was nightly AA or NA meetings conducted by volunteers from
different local groups. I saw how important meetings would be to my sustained recovery. I also
saw that there was considerable differences among the groups, and that I would have to "take
what I needed and leave the rest."
Actually, for several years I had known that meetings were the cure for alcoholism, but of course
I was not an alcoholic. I had read that addiction affects more than just the primitive parts
of our brain.
Addictions also affect the prefrontal cortex, that part of the brain which evolved to support our
existence as sophisticated social creatures. Thus, when this part of the brain malfunctions,
a solution can be found in a therapeutic social setting.
(4 March 2009; Neuroscience: "Rethinking rehab", Jim Schnabel, Nature 458.)
But AA is an old-fashioned, God-centered program; and I was raised an atheist. I had questions
about things, and there was not always an opportunity to ask the questions at meetings. Some of
the questions might even have been disruptive to the therapeutic environment.
So I found SoberRecovery, where people discuss things like how their concept of God affects their
recovery. Also, any time spent here at SR helps my recovery.
Thank You So Much Coldfusion!!
*Song For The Day-U2-Beautiful Day
If ever unable to locate the 24 Hour Club, Go To Search on blue tool bar and type in Newcomer Daily Support
and Click GO! This is part 52!
orangutan
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 5,970
Originally Posted by Carlotta 
8:38 am and I am in for another sober 24 hours
Someone posted this on my facebook wall. Hoppy Easter
Someone posted this on my facebook wall. Hoppy Easter
Deeker those ducks are cuties also!!!!
24 more for me
7.45 am in Auss.
HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYONE.
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