One Week
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: ct
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One Week
One week! I've been through this before and fell back into my old ways, but it feels DIFFERENT this time. I've had a good discussion with my wife, and took a good look at myself and where I am and what I have to lose, and decided enough is enough.
I'd been drinking more and more, as many as five 1.75L bottles of vodka a week. On the way to work, while driving to job-sites, on the way home, anytime I was alone...I would wake up nearly every morning and throw up bile and sometimes blood, then catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror, feel disgusted and swear off alcohol. Twenty minute later, I'd be drinking in the car.
The worst was getting called into HR, where I was told that two co-workers, at two different times, had mentioned they smelled alcohol on my breath. I talked my way out of it, stopped drinking during work hours for a few days, then started right back up. What a putZ!
Anyway, like I said above, it feels different this time. A week in and the cravings seem weaker than in the past. I told my wife I would call her if I got the urge, and I really think I will (I talked candidly with her a few nights ago when I got home from a rough day, and it really helped get past the urge.)
ONE WEEK!
I'd been drinking more and more, as many as five 1.75L bottles of vodka a week. On the way to work, while driving to job-sites, on the way home, anytime I was alone...I would wake up nearly every morning and throw up bile and sometimes blood, then catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror, feel disgusted and swear off alcohol. Twenty minute later, I'd be drinking in the car.
The worst was getting called into HR, where I was told that two co-workers, at two different times, had mentioned they smelled alcohol on my breath. I talked my way out of it, stopped drinking during work hours for a few days, then started right back up. What a putZ!
Anyway, like I said above, it feels different this time. A week in and the cravings seem weaker than in the past. I told my wife I would call her if I got the urge, and I really think I will (I talked candidly with her a few nights ago when I got home from a rough day, and it really helped get past the urge.)
ONE WEEK!
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Calif
Posts: 757
hay great job!! one week was a mile stone for me too. i tried to stop for about a year. today i been 8 weeks completely sober. i woke up feeling like you did looking in the mirror ashamed of my self too. but not today, i feel great. congratulations!!
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Toronto, Ontario
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You're my kind of alcoholic - drank very similar to you. Having said that, going from 100 km/h to 0 is tough...do you have a plan of action for this new different feeling you have now? Many of us have a program of recovery. Mine was AA, but there are other ways out there.
Congrats on a week!
(Forgive the metric up there ^^^^^, I am Canadian)
Congrats on a week!
(Forgive the metric up there ^^^^^, I am Canadian)
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