Meraviglioso

Ugh, I am just sick. Sick! Today I stopped by the grocery store at about 3:15 pm. As I was pulling into the garage I noticed an ambulance arriving out front and someone on the ground. As I came up the escalator I stood at the doorway watching the medics load a man onto a stretcher. They were concluding their activities right then so the small crowd gather started to disperse. I asked a woman what had happened and she said "he's drunk" I saw them lift him into the ambulance and his arm fell off the side of the stretcher, his head was cocked sideways with his mouth gaping open. He had just passed out cold right there on the sidewalk next to a busy street. There is no bar nearby, I am not sure where he came from or where he was going, but something bad happened that he just collapsed right there.
I was so shocked and saddened. I felt like I was going to vomit or pass out right then and there. People were shaking their heads in disgust but I felt such sympathy and pain for this man. I also was very aware that it could have easily been me. Thankfully I am stacking up the sober days- but just a short while ago that could have been me and if I am not careful it could be me in the future.
It was a heavy reminder for me. Really heavy. I was so surprised and the immediate physical reaction I experienced just by hearing those words "he's drunk" and watching him be lifted into the ambulance.
Horrible. Horrible.
This will be another sober night for me- both alcohol free and mood wise.
Stay strong folks, we don't want to end up passed out on the side of a busy street with a whole grocery store of people shaking their heads at us.

Soberwolf

This happened to me a lot a 36 year old lady i knew died very early on in my sobriety a couple weeks later my sisters friend who we both knew for years died thru alcoholism

my sisters male aa friend i actually heard his chair and had a bite to eat after with comitted suicide around 4 months ago

i am current losing someone close to me she has over 25 years sobriety and has weeks left with terminal cancer


I cant tell you how much i ******* hate alcohol

Meraviglioso i believe some of these things i was meant to witness to make sure i knew how deadly serioius this all is

hope your not too shaken up by this

Meraviglioso

Yes, as terribly upsetting as it was I think it was good I saw that.
But yes, I was and still am very shaken up. So sad.

FreeOwl

there but for the grace of whatever higher power we might choose to put our faith in.....

Cecilia44

Wow Meraviglioso thanks for sharing. How awful and yet what a good reminder as to why we need to stay sober. One day at time.