Awesome thread! Excellent points all!
fragrantrose hang in there, keep working on your recovery, things kept getting better, every time I thought that my head could not get better it always did. I saw mental improvement for over a year. The majority of my physical issues cleared up in about 6 months.
I will say that my drinking may have taken a long term toll on me physically, I was just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but it is getting under control now. I have to give credit to the program of AA for how rapidly I have gotten my blood sugar under control as well as my diet, as AA taught me how to accept my alcoholism and deal with it & life, so have I applied it in a way that has allowed me to accept & live with my diabetes.