100 Days and a sober childhood ago.
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100 Days and a sober childhood ago.
I was just trying to remember when the last time in my life was that I went 100 days without a drink. It literally must have been somewhere in my teens. When I first started posting here I wrote about how heavy a beer drinker I was but that stage was only the last 5 or 6 years.
My first drink was accompanied by a toke of pot at the tender age of 7, my first blackout was the age of 10 and I became a heavy every weekend drinker by the time I was 15. I think the last time I went 100 days without a drink may have been shortly before 15. By 20 I was drinking every day except for a brief period around 24 where I got this great idea that I was going to cut down, that only lasted about 3 months and I still drank on weekends.
The sheer amount of alcohol I have consumed in my 40 years is astounding when I think about it. There were periods when I drank 20 plus measures of whiskey every night easy. My Bachelor pad Buddy and I would count shots together and I remember losing track after 20 and I may have hit 30 that night. I was 19 when this memory occurred.
I also remember living alone about 10 years later and drinking a glass of milk every night before I went to sleep because I would wake up with stomach pains from the whiskey. This was around the time I switched to beer and I thought it was like I was quitting Alcohol even though I would down 8 to 10 beers now every night instead.
25 years of a 40 year life and I cannot believe I lived to tell about it. Over the years I also inhaled gasoline fumes, smoked pot and deliberately hyperventilated to get off on passing out. Throw in some hallucinogenics for good measure and I should be so brain wiped that all I should be doing is Janitorial work. That I have a skill and a profession that I have excelled in all the while destroying myself is amazing to me.
It’s like we gotta live for today cause we need to be thankful for tomorrow. I am one lucky man that I emerged unscathed from the damaging effects of substance abuse.
Thank you to the Sober Recovery Community for helping guide me straight and to anyone out there struggling with substance abuse, you are not alone.
My first drink was accompanied by a toke of pot at the tender age of 7, my first blackout was the age of 10 and I became a heavy every weekend drinker by the time I was 15. I think the last time I went 100 days without a drink may have been shortly before 15. By 20 I was drinking every day except for a brief period around 24 where I got this great idea that I was going to cut down, that only lasted about 3 months and I still drank on weekends.
The sheer amount of alcohol I have consumed in my 40 years is astounding when I think about it. There were periods when I drank 20 plus measures of whiskey every night easy. My Bachelor pad Buddy and I would count shots together and I remember losing track after 20 and I may have hit 30 that night. I was 19 when this memory occurred.
I also remember living alone about 10 years later and drinking a glass of milk every night before I went to sleep because I would wake up with stomach pains from the whiskey. This was around the time I switched to beer and I thought it was like I was quitting Alcohol even though I would down 8 to 10 beers now every night instead.
25 years of a 40 year life and I cannot believe I lived to tell about it. Over the years I also inhaled gasoline fumes, smoked pot and deliberately hyperventilated to get off on passing out. Throw in some hallucinogenics for good measure and I should be so brain wiped that all I should be doing is Janitorial work. That I have a skill and a profession that I have excelled in all the while destroying myself is amazing to me.
It’s like we gotta live for today cause we need to be thankful for tomorrow. I am one lucky man that I emerged unscathed from the damaging effects of substance abuse.
Thank you to the Sober Recovery Community for helping guide me straight and to anyone out there struggling with substance abuse, you are not alone.
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It astounds me how much and for how long our bodies have endured such abuse and we are here to talk about it. Not everybody has been given that precious gift. There but for the grace of God go I.
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Yes, it's amazing how much our bodies can put up with! Before I stopped drinking on June 22, 2009, I had NEVER gone more than 90 days without drinking since I downed that first beer on May 26, 1980 (when I was 14 years-old). Thus began a nearly 30-year "love affair" with beer that finally progressed to 12-18 beers every weekday, with much more on the weekends. This little "habit" finally left me questioning my own sanity. Now, over 9 months later, I finally feel free from the bonds of alcohol and am enjoying life like I haven't since I was a kid.
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Originally Posted by HumbleBee 
It astounds me how much and for how long our bodies have endured such abuse and we are here to talk about it. Not everybody has been given that precious gift. There but for the grace of God go I.
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Originally Posted by least
Congrats on your hundred days!! 
Feels great, doesn't it?
Feels great, doesn't it?Thanks to everyone for the well wishes, it encourages me to continue the fight to stay recovered.
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