no slips in that year arbor or since - but literally hundreds if not thousands before then.
I think the problem was, before, when life sober got no better I'd drink again - which put me right back at square one with regards to physical and mental damage.
It was a particularly desolate cycle.
I really needed that faith that life would get better if I stayed sober to sustain me - and life really did get better, once I did
D