Michelle, I hardly know what to say other than to tell you that I am humbled by your kind words and I thank you for what you've said...
I hear time and again that it's a "We" program, not an "I" program, and I agree. After all, what's that first word in the 12 Steps...?
This is how recovery works: one hand reaches out to the next, and then that hand reaches out to the next, and so on, until all the shipwreck survivors are in the lifeboat...
If my sharing has touched you, then I've done what the Steps have taught me to do, which is to do my best to be an agent of a Higher Power. I believe that Power flows through us all, connecting us on a spiritual level and doing for us what we cannot do for ourselves.
I have been, and continue to be, touched by your honesty and integrity as you struggle to do the single hardest thing an addict can do---stay clean a day at a time.
I am blessed to have met you on my path!