My 1st missed meeting
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Murrieta, Ca
Posts: 2,683
My 1st missed meeting
Hurt my back at work today. I can hardly walk it hurts so bad (lower back).
Anyway, gotta miss my 1st meeting. I've got 55 in 49 days anyway, so I'm not worried. I'll just poke around here for awhile.
Anyway, gotta miss my 1st meeting. I've got 55 in 49 days anyway, so I'm not worried. I'll just poke around here for awhile.
Om, Aum, Ohm...
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Punxsutawney/Pittsburgh
Posts: 4,797
I, too, am sorry about your back. I almost didn't go to my meeting tonight due to pain issues, but a dear old friend was leading, and I didn't want to miss it. Ended up sitting on only half my tush through the meeting.
Your thread got me thinking about my first 90 in 90. I had just finished the first and was gung-ho, ready to begin another when I fell and crushed my ankle. I ended up with all sorts of hardware after a five-hour reconstruction, and I was warned, "Don't bump it, don't jar it, don't do anything! We won't be able to fix it a second time." So....gee...what was I going to do?
I found some online meetings. I read my BB a lot. My sponsor came to visit me once a week (she lived 20 miles away in a neighboring town and worked 60 hrs a week -- so more than once a week was hard on her). It was February and too dangerous to ignore the doctors' warnings and try to risk an outside meeting. Some women got together and started bringing me an organized meeting once a week, and the other five days, I worked really hard to wear out my phone list! (that didn't happen...they kept telling me, "call anytime!")
So, it's good that you're here. Don't want too long for human interaction, though. Use the phone! Folks don't put their names on phone lists to be polite. You'll find as you use it that you're probably helping others by calling as much if not more sometimes than they're helping you -- even if you feel like your recovery is the focus. When folks give suggestions, they are in essence binding themselves to follow the same suggestions.
I truly hope that you get some relief from your back pain. That "prayer and meditation" thing is invaluable to me when I'm feeling pain. It sure beats a handful of pain pills chased with a whiskey chaser. I'll say a prayer that a little rest and some reaching out will make you right as rain.
Peace & Love,
Sugah
Your thread got me thinking about my first 90 in 90. I had just finished the first and was gung-ho, ready to begin another when I fell and crushed my ankle. I ended up with all sorts of hardware after a five-hour reconstruction, and I was warned, "Don't bump it, don't jar it, don't do anything! We won't be able to fix it a second time." So....gee...what was I going to do?
I found some online meetings. I read my BB a lot. My sponsor came to visit me once a week (she lived 20 miles away in a neighboring town and worked 60 hrs a week -- so more than once a week was hard on her). It was February and too dangerous to ignore the doctors' warnings and try to risk an outside meeting. Some women got together and started bringing me an organized meeting once a week, and the other five days, I worked really hard to wear out my phone list! (that didn't happen...they kept telling me, "call anytime!")
So, it's good that you're here. Don't want too long for human interaction, though. Use the phone! Folks don't put their names on phone lists to be polite. You'll find as you use it that you're probably helping others by calling as much if not more sometimes than they're helping you -- even if you feel like your recovery is the focus. When folks give suggestions, they are in essence binding themselves to follow the same suggestions.
I truly hope that you get some relief from your back pain. That "prayer and meditation" thing is invaluable to me when I'm feeling pain. It sure beats a handful of pain pills chased with a whiskey chaser. I'll say a prayer that a little rest and some reaching out will make you right as rain.
Peace & Love,
Sugah
Member
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Highlands, TX
Posts: 1,192
Hey GP, sorry to hear about your back and I hope you get to feeling better real soon. You've gotten great advice so I won't add anything but wanted you to know I'm pulling for you!
Hugs,
Kellye
Hugs,
Kellye
Member
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Green,green grass of home
Posts: 600
Sorry to hear about your back,hope you feel better soon.Sugestion if i may,you may want to call someone from program,have them over to your place,and have a meeting!!!.When 2 or more are together,its called a meeting...smile..
All the best,take care
All the best,take care
Follow Directions!
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Fredericksburg, Va.
Posts: 9,730
Glass all the best on a speedy recovery, I see you have 55 in 49, I had an old timer share that he always made sure he had a few meetings in the bank in case he was traveling and couldn't find a meeting, between the phone and here you should be covered, read, pray, and meditate, you will get through this. What is it they say.... "This to shall pass".
Member
Join Date: May 2005
Location: brooklyn, new york
Posts: 1,639
"..........I've got 55 in 49 days anyway............"
it nice to have a few meetings "in the bank"
and
if it happened to me
i would read the big book, make a few calls, etc
but
spend an hour in recovery for that day
now, you can even go online for a while
to make a mini meeting
best
fraankie
it nice to have a few meetings "in the bank"
and
if it happened to me
i would read the big book, make a few calls, etc
but
spend an hour in recovery for that day
now, you can even go online for a while
to make a mini meeting
best
fraankie
Currently Active Users Viewing this Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
