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04-25-2014, 02:18 AM

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venuscat

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Join Date: Nov 2012

Location: German Village, Columbus with my love ♥

Posts: 88,529

Reposting for deeker!! April 25th, 2014!

Hi There! Hope everyone had good week!

Join us in a simple commitment to stay clean and sober for the next 24 hours!
You can do it! Post your local time and commit!

Please post only once a day on this thread as this is mainly a sign up sheet.

If you have already signed in for the day but would like to leave a comment
on someone else's post please click on their name or avatar and it will take
you right to their visitor board.

Thank You for your cooperation!!

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Welcome To Our Newest Members-Panacea -ChickChick-
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Welcome Back To those returning!

Congratulations!!

Holli 1 week!
TonyReeceAustin 1 week!
mimi2014 2 weeks!
lunachild 2 weeks!
1stepup 2 weeks!
DancingDiva 2 weeks!
lifetplant 3 weeks!
livin14 4 weeks!
simplenoteasy 1 month!

If I missed your special day, my apologies. Please send me a pm with your
clean/sober start date, any updates and corrections! Thank You!

Thank You Miss venuscat for Congratulating all our celebrants behind the scenes
on behalf of the 24 hour club! Also for reposting the club for me when it is nightime
in the USA.

Roster will be posted at 10 pm EST USA 4/25. Google USA Eastern
Standard Time to see how your local time translates.

I have asked huntingtontx to share her story with us. She has continually pushed
forward overcoming many obstacles. She is also a great source of hope for
new people coming into SR. I am inspired by her story and I think you will be too!

And now I turn it over to huntingtontx...

I broke my back in a car wreck on the way to work. They gave me pain pills to
take home after I left the hospital, but I did not take them because it said they
did not mix with alcohol. Crazy! Right?

That is how much alcohol meant to me. I pretty much knew I was not going
back to work, my car was totaled, and I was in a back brace unable to leave
the house.

I pretty much started drinking at noon and drank till I went to bed. If I woke at
night I drank then too.

I was on high blood pressure pills and also heart medication. It seemed my
health was really not too good.

One morning I woke with my right arm black and blue. I did not know what had
happened. My husband, who is also an alcoholic told me I had tried to get
up to use the bathroom and fallen over by the door. He helped me back to bed.

I had not put my brace on and my back could not hold me. I realized I could have
been crippled for life.

That day I got real with myself. I quit drinking. That was July the 8th, 2013 and
it was a changing day in my life.

I did not know how but I knew I was going to quit. I went online and read about
the dangers of quitting cold turkey, but I could not go anywhere, so I decided to
do it on my own.

I put a bottle of wine on the counter in case things got to bad, and sobered up.
I was blessed with very few withdrawal symptoms and had a good recovery.

I had been a heavy drinker for many years, and an every night drunk for at
least ten years. I was always able to stop for a week or two to go visit my
grandbabies. Not sure why I was able to do that.

Anyway, I got sober. A month later I gave the wine to my sister.

After a few days I knew I needed some support. My husband was still drunk every
night, and I was feeling very much alone. I went online and found SR. I was
so grateful to have found people who understood.

I lived in the chat room those early days. I found the meetings on Tuesday and
Friday, the 24 hour thread, and the post board. Every time I posted people
were there for me.

Once I felt very attacked, I had said I was a high functioning alcoholic and boy
did that set some people off.

I still know there are different levels of alcoholism. I worked every day, kept a clean
house, did not drink and drive, etc. That is part of the reason it took me so long
to seek help.

I was not sure I was an alcoholic. I did not fit the round hole.

I have learned on this journey we are all different, yet we are the same. We all have
a common enemy.

We all have to take this one day at a time and we all can learn from each other.
As I reply to posts and try to help others, it helps me.

I have learned so much here, and have made so many good friends. I may never
see them face to face, but I know them and know they are there for me and I for
them.

I thank God every day for SR and I have learned that through helping others I help
myself. I could try to list all those that helped me on this journey, but it would be
to long to read.

Thank you all who have walked with me, helping me along the way. I want to
do all I can to help others on their journey.

One last thing. My husband is an alcoholic, who gets drunk every night. Never
believe you can’t quit because someone else drinks.

We each have our own life, and the right to live it. I am around alcohol every day,
but I do not want it to be part of my life. My choice. I choose this day to be sober.
Thanks for all your help.

Thank You huntingtontx!

*Song For The Day -Nina Gordon - Tonight and the rest of my life

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