my story

[bob_sapp]

I am not going to give a lot of background, or my whole story, all about me, or any self pity or sob stories, or why I did all this. At 13, I had my first drug and drink. By the time I was 15, I was shooting cocaine and morphine. When I wasn’t on drugs, I was blackout drunk. I didn’t have a problem. I drank and drugged from age 13 until 22. At first it was only weekends, then it was daily for years. By the end I would stop for a month, drink a couple times, and go back to being sober. My last year out there, I only drank booze. I was addicted to cocaine and opiates for years… and eventually I just quit them… but I still drank. Booze, I could not quit. I was told to go to AA, and I did. I never questioned if I was alcoholic or not, only if I could quit. I came into the rooms, I hung out with people, I did the steps, and did what they told me. I’ve now been sober for 3+ years now. I don’t know what would have happened without AA, but I know that I needed a lot more than sobriety, and I still do. It has been a rocky road, but I am here and am determined to make it. Today I am no longer a boy hiding from life and myself, I am becoming a man and learning to live life on life’s terms. Sober today by the grace of god and the fellowship of this program,
-Bob