Occasionally I (we) just like to count our days sober - Pt 16
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Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: Brit in New Zealand
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Thirty days!!!
I am going to celebrate this by getting a tattoo on the forefinger of my right hand. A tiny, little fast-forward symbol like you get on stereos. This represents 'play the tape forward'.
So if I ever get cocky again and I am tempted to take that first drink I will see it, even if I am holding the drink, and be reminded to play the tape forward.
Should be able to get it done in the next couple of weeks, I will post a picture when it is done
I finally feel free
I am going to celebrate this by getting a tattoo on the forefinger of my right hand. A tiny, little fast-forward symbol like you get on stereos. This represents 'play the tape forward'.
So if I ever get cocky again and I am tempted to take that first drink I will see it, even if I am holding the drink, and be reminded to play the tape forward.
Should be able to get it done in the next couple of weeks, I will post a picture when it is done
I finally feel free
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Join Date: May 2017
Location: Tyne and Wear, UK
Posts: 1,538
Originally Posted by skyfullofstars 
Thirty days!!!
I am going to celebrate this by getting a tattoo on the forefinger of my right hand. A tiny, little fast-forward symbol like you get on stereos. This represents 'play the tape forward'.
So if I ever get cocky again and I am tempted to take that first drink I will see it, even if I am holding the drink, and be reminded to play the tape forward.
Should be able to get it done in the next couple of weeks, I will post a picture when it is done
I finally feel free
I am going to celebrate this by getting a tattoo on the forefinger of my right hand. A tiny, little fast-forward symbol like you get on stereos. This represents 'play the tape forward'.
So if I ever get cocky again and I am tempted to take that first drink I will see it, even if I am holding the drink, and be reminded to play the tape forward.
Should be able to get it done in the next couple of weeks, I will post a picture when it is done
I finally feel free
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Join Date: May 2017
Location: Tyne and Wear, UK
Posts: 1,538
Day 29.
Four weeks ago today, I woke up on a hospital ward after being admitted the previous day and sent from admissions to a ward at 1am on the Monday morning.
I was to be in hospital for a few days and my journey into sobriety and recovery had started.
Four weeks ago today, I woke up on a hospital ward after being admitted the previous day and sent from admissions to a ward at 1am on the Monday morning.
I was to be in hospital for a few days and my journey into sobriety and recovery had started.
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Location: San Antonio
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Originally Posted by Tynesider22
Day 29.
Four weeks ago today, I woke up on a hospital ward after being admitted the previous day and sent from admissions to a ward at 1am on the Monday morning.
I was to be in hospital for a few days and my journey into sobriety and recovery had started.
Four weeks ago today, I woke up on a hospital ward after being admitted the previous day and sent from admissions to a ward at 1am on the Monday morning.
I was to be in hospital for a few days and my journey into sobriety and recovery had started.
Sober since October 24, 1997
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Otero County, New Mexico
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Once upon a time I had 1 day!
Then I had 2 days!
Then I had 7!
Then came 14 days. After that I lost count.
I never realized two years arrived and went by because I rarely, if ever, thought about it by then.
One day I realized it had been over five years since I had become sober.
Ten years came and went.
So did fifteen years.
My awareness came back at a little before seventeen years sober in late September of 2014. I had to think back and try to figure out just what day it was when I quit, using my memory of when I had minor skin surgery. It was on October 24, 1997. I also used a calendar for that year because it was on a Friday at the end of the month just after my mother's birthday. The daughter of my buddy I've known since 1958 has a sullen drunk instead of a husband, and their three teenage daughters have grown up with my buddy, their grandfather, as the male role model in their lives - couldn't ask for a better male role model, too! I found this place for my buddy and his daughter to learn about alcoholism, and I have shared my own history here since 2014 as well so maybe it will help others become and stay sober.
Okay! Back to counting my days sober, 7,585 days for me, going on 7,671 days - 21 years - on October 25 (October 24 plus the first 24 hours of being sober). I did it the same exact way as everybody else, just one single day at a time. Just 7,585 days one right after another. That's my secret. Oh, AND LEAVING THE &^%!#@^* BOOZE ALONE PROBABLY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT, TOO!
Lautca
Then I had 2 days!
Then I had 7!
Then came 14 days. After that I lost count.
I never realized two years arrived and went by because I rarely, if ever, thought about it by then.
One day I realized it had been over five years since I had become sober.
Ten years came and went.
So did fifteen years.
My awareness came back at a little before seventeen years sober in late September of 2014. I had to think back and try to figure out just what day it was when I quit, using my memory of when I had minor skin surgery. It was on October 24, 1997. I also used a calendar for that year because it was on a Friday at the end of the month just after my mother's birthday. The daughter of my buddy I've known since 1958 has a sullen drunk instead of a husband, and their three teenage daughters have grown up with my buddy, their grandfather, as the male role model in their lives - couldn't ask for a better male role model, too! I found this place for my buddy and his daughter to learn about alcoholism, and I have shared my own history here since 2014 as well so maybe it will help others become and stay sober.
Okay! Back to counting my days sober, 7,585 days for me, going on 7,671 days - 21 years - on October 25 (October 24 plus the first 24 hours of being sober). I did it the same exact way as everybody else, just one single day at a time. Just 7,585 days one right after another. That's my secret. Oh, AND LEAVING THE &^%!#@^* BOOZE ALONE PROBABLY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT, TOO!
Lautca
30 days yay!
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