24 Hour Recovery Connections Part 493
2Cor5:17
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Between Doctor's opinion & pg 164
Posts: 4,187
Thank you Mags for your hopes that I would get a sponsor & I did! =inheritJennifer & I will be a great team! She’s got 14yrs loves service work like me 💯. Btw, I see you’re nipping @ my heels with your seven yrs; now I gotta run faster before you catch up on me! Congrats & well done
Again thx Bailey coz SR & my network have been so behind me, I wouldn’t know how to repay you! Sniff
24 pls Gnite
Again thx Bailey coz SR & my network have been so behind me, I wouldn’t know how to repay you! Sniff
24 pls Gnite
!! Happy 7th Birthday To You !! Member
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: South Bay, So Cal
Posts: 6,125
Originally Posted by wiscsober 
no joking I think it is time to move on thank you all it's going to be hard not checking back in I wish you all the best and really don't want to check back in .... live sober love sober.....I'll be alright and so will you
What??!! How does one move one from being an alcoholic/addict? Let’s see ... IDK ... but living a great life today for me means staying connected to my fellows. The folks who “get it”, who can care for me when I get upset, who have my back in friendship. In TRUE friendship.
You really want to move on from us, your friends, who know the real you Wisc. This Forum is SO much more than about not drinking.
I hope you got to read my post before saying good-bye.
Love,
Bobbi
Magsie
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: UK
Posts: 26,688
@wiscsober you’re a big part of SR, I love reading your posts every day. Full of honesty, caring and integrity. I hope you stay. 
Thanks for all your congrats.
Glad to be here, sober and part of a great lifesaving forum,SR.
24 more for me too please.
06.38 am Tuesday 21 July
Thanks for all your congrats.
Glad to be here, sober and part of a great lifesaving forum,SR. 24 more for me too please.
06.38 am Tuesday 21 July
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: UK
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I know Dee said you're no longer a member Wisc, but you can come back. I really hope you come back.
I think I left SR a couple of times in my first year or so here but then I would carry on reading and hate that I wasn't part of the thread anymore and I'd message Dee or Anna and ask if I could come back and then everyone would say, 'hi Kenton, glad you're back' and I'd be back in the fold and everyone would just accept that I'm back ... Because everyone here is so accepting and kind. I really hope you come back Wics... I will miss you so much.
And you know, maybe there's something in the air at the moment..... Other than Covid 19, I mean..... Because yesterday I was completely out-of-sorts.... In fact, I was probably about as crazy as it's possible for a sober person to be. I've got these 2 peace lily plants and I'm not very good at caring for plants but I've been trying to take good care of these lilies. Yesterday morning, they had both wilted and because I'm such an emotional wreck at the moment, this made me cry. So I started researching what I should do and stumbled across this article by an Australian lady who said she perks up her plants by giving them warm water with Epsom salts. I thought it was worth a try so I ran a shallow bath of warm water, and reached for my Epsom salts..... Thing is, I keep the salts in a glass container and what with checking the water temperature and carrying the lilies, I ended up dropping the glass container accidentally on the floor. It smashed sending glass and Epsom salts everywhere and because I couldn't see what I was doing because my arms were full of peace lilies, I ended up standing bare foot on a huge chunk of glass and cutting my foot open. My youngest son walked into the bathroom to see me putting the plants in the bath whilst standing on one foot so as not to press the glass further into my foot. He then ran downstairs to my husband where he exclaimed, 'mummy's giving the plants a bath and she's cut her foot open'. Anyway, whilst I was waiting at the hospital yesterday to get my foot stitched up, I started getting really emotional. I started telling myself that no one cares. Not really. I care. I genuinely care about people but I'm not sure anyone cares about me. And why should they? If my own mother tells me I'm unlikeable because I'm too much like my dad (a man she chose to have kids with btw).... Well, maybe that's just the truth. And even though I know it's not the truth, my mind was very convincing. By the time I saw the nurse, I'd convinced myself the world would probably be better off without me. Then I told the nurse about bathing the plants and whole Epsom salts thing and she laughed and told her colleague and they both laughed and told me I'd made their day. And on the way home from the hospital, I challenged the voice. My emotions are all over the place at the moment. My youngest daughter leaving primary school is bringing up loads of stuff for me.... Really deeply buried stuff..... But just because I'm emotional and struggling a little at the moment doesn't mean I can project my stuff onto others. Telling myself no one cares may make be feel momentarily self righteous but it's not true and in the long run it will cause me nothing but pain. It's my AV. It wants me to push people away because if I'm on my own, I'm much more likely to drink. As for the peace lilies.... They have perked up a bit .... They look a lot happier today. See, nothing's permanent. Please come back Wisc xxxx
24 more for me please xxxx
I think I left SR a couple of times in my first year or so here but then I would carry on reading and hate that I wasn't part of the thread anymore and I'd message Dee or Anna and ask if I could come back and then everyone would say, 'hi Kenton, glad you're back' and I'd be back in the fold and everyone would just accept that I'm back ... Because everyone here is so accepting and kind. I really hope you come back Wics... I will miss you so much.
And you know, maybe there's something in the air at the moment..... Other than Covid 19, I mean..... Because yesterday I was completely out-of-sorts.... In fact, I was probably about as crazy as it's possible for a sober person to be. I've got these 2 peace lily plants and I'm not very good at caring for plants but I've been trying to take good care of these lilies. Yesterday morning, they had both wilted and because I'm such an emotional wreck at the moment, this made me cry. So I started researching what I should do and stumbled across this article by an Australian lady who said she perks up her plants by giving them warm water with Epsom salts. I thought it was worth a try so I ran a shallow bath of warm water, and reached for my Epsom salts..... Thing is, I keep the salts in a glass container and what with checking the water temperature and carrying the lilies, I ended up dropping the glass container accidentally on the floor. It smashed sending glass and Epsom salts everywhere and because I couldn't see what I was doing because my arms were full of peace lilies, I ended up standing bare foot on a huge chunk of glass and cutting my foot open. My youngest son walked into the bathroom to see me putting the plants in the bath whilst standing on one foot so as not to press the glass further into my foot. He then ran downstairs to my husband where he exclaimed, 'mummy's giving the plants a bath and she's cut her foot open'. Anyway, whilst I was waiting at the hospital yesterday to get my foot stitched up, I started getting really emotional. I started telling myself that no one cares. Not really. I care. I genuinely care about people but I'm not sure anyone cares about me. And why should they? If my own mother tells me I'm unlikeable because I'm too much like my dad (a man she chose to have kids with btw).... Well, maybe that's just the truth. And even though I know it's not the truth, my mind was very convincing. By the time I saw the nurse, I'd convinced myself the world would probably be better off without me. Then I told the nurse about bathing the plants and whole Epsom salts thing and she laughed and told her colleague and they both laughed and told me I'd made their day. And on the way home from the hospital, I challenged the voice. My emotions are all over the place at the moment. My youngest daughter leaving primary school is bringing up loads of stuff for me.... Really deeply buried stuff..... But just because I'm emotional and struggling a little at the moment doesn't mean I can project my stuff onto others. Telling myself no one cares may make be feel momentarily self righteous but it's not true and in the long run it will cause me nothing but pain. It's my AV. It wants me to push people away because if I'm on my own, I'm much more likely to drink. As for the peace lilies.... They have perked up a bit .... They look a lot happier today. See, nothing's permanent. Please come back Wisc xxxx
24 more for me please xxxx
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