Alice and JT, thank you for sharing your experience. Life can be searingly painful. So sorry for what you have both suffered.
Thanks as always Suze for your kind and hopeful words.
I have to admit, like JT I haven't thrown away the keys to the old house yet.....still some ambivalence about the finality of staying sober.
Bob, I am so glad to hear the medical problems are all manageable.
RAL, where are you?