IO Storm

Well, now you all went and did it...Kleenex time.

Thank you for your kind and thoughtful responses...

You know..that wreck was just the beginning of sorrows...I couldn't be

alcoholic ..after all I had just started! There was an overdose of Xanax and alcohol ..

I stopped breathing (in a blackout). A friend had an "intuition" I was not "just

sleeping" and checked me. That did land me in the psych ward with a dual

diagnosis. There, I was removed from tranq's for the last time. Then..sober..I was

broadsided by a 1/2 ton pick up. Another total wreck..I was inconsolable. I had the

paramedics crying! "My car, my beautiful car.." I had just bought it 5 days earlier. A

paramedic said.."Lady..forget the car..you are lucky you still have a head!" The whiplash

was so severe I was in a head and shoulder brace for six weeks. Still hurts when I overdo it.

But God was even in that...the pick up hit exactly ..right on the steel "cage" on the driver's

side..barely buckling the steel, sparing me from being crushed when the car rolled. When my

car stopped..it was a few inches from plunging into a canal. A California

Highway Patrol "happened" to witness the accident and was calling for help

(as it occurred) And I had my windows tinted the day before..

they were still drying..the glass "stuck" in the tint and did not shard

and cut me. Another miracle.

I have sure made it tough for God to take care of me...

But I'm glad He didn't give up.

IO Storm

I believe too, Anna...

IO Storm

Thank you...

Bradster, Nogie, Boston, Hevyn, Row(sis),Chiy, Dee(thanks for the IQ bit).*Lol*

And Steamvessel..special thanks to you. Opening up is good for the soul.

Once you begin, it gets easier..and it is like a release or the opening of

a floodgate of sorts. "More will be revealed".

dave47

Thanks for the very powerful share IO, gives us all something to ponder over.

IO Storm

Pondering over the pond...

Really, thank you Dave,

Rusty Zipper

geeze, i thought it was I'O Storm...guess ya was then!

happy ya aint now!

so happy we conectted sis!

love

bro

All About Love

man im sooooooooooooooo
glad that you are here
gets you thinkin huh...
how we manage to survive all we do
we are truly blessed indeed♥♥♥♥

Rella927

Sher! Kleenex? Ummm sitting at work reading your story with a kleenex in the other
hand!

I must say that I'am blessed that you are here too-and so GRATEFUL that you
survived through that horrible ordeal!

SR is a better place with you in it!

Love ya babes

IO Storm

*Lol..Actually, Patrick...

It (is) I'O..someone helped me with my screen name when I came here...

and left out the '...! Didn't know how to do it meself.

But God surely was with me in the eye of the storm during those times.

And continues to be during the tough times.

I'm glad we connected too.

Hugs bro'

:ghug3:

IO Storm

brainfried:

Thanks...

We do survive a lot..and are surely blessed..now, it's a matter of what

we do with it.

Hugs

(you take of you!)

IO Storm

Rells...

Thank you, and love ya

:ghug3:

Nuff said my dear friend

cmc

Thanks Sher, for sharing your experience, strength & hope.
I too, am especially glad you're still 'here' with us!

IO Storm

Thanks cmc..my special friend...

Just came back from the doctor's office. Had a lot of time to reflect ..

(waiting room's *Lol*)..and I think I relapsed so many times...Well ,because

of several things.

I wasn't done yet...denial..."What an order..I can't go through with it!"

Looked at other people as saints..and beat myself up. I refused to

let them love me until I could love myself.

I made a boyfriend my higher power..rode on the coattails of other's

programs and sobriety...things do fall into place when we "pause and

reflect". In one wreck I was drunk..one sober. Rain falls on the just,

the unjust. What I am learning to do today is to walk by faith..

to trust..and *Lol*..because by now, for sure, I know angels watch

over me.