Detox question---anyone out there from the Bay Area?
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Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: CA
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Perhaps the newbie bus would give me a ride?
I can't believe how insidious the addict mind is. It breaks my heart that I give in to it every day; I keep saying "tomorrow" and I know I'm running out of them. I read a bunch of reviews on the local co. hospital and people mostly claim to have received excellent care (after an extremely long wait). The waiting is the worst part of course, and the waiting rooms are said to be extremely grim, strewn with debris. One person even said they found dried blood on the seats. The homeless come in at night to bum change and cigarettes-some of them are violent- and there are menacing guards standing duty at all times. It is apparently where the police dump all the folks who are spun out but can't officially be booked for a crime. I don't mean to sound elitist in any sense, but the scene seems a little intense for me at the moment.
It will take me over an hour and two buses to get there on my own. And driving myself seems a little irresponsible given my current intake level. A big part of my drinking is about trying to get to a "safe" place (ridiculous as that is in reality) and I'm just freaked out right now about being in such a vulnerable situation. Not trying to make excuses here--just afraid and requesting support.
I can't believe how insidious the addict mind is. It breaks my heart that I give in to it every day; I keep saying "tomorrow" and I know I'm running out of them. I read a bunch of reviews on the local co. hospital and people mostly claim to have received excellent care (after an extremely long wait). The waiting is the worst part of course, and the waiting rooms are said to be extremely grim, strewn with debris. One person even said they found dried blood on the seats. The homeless come in at night to bum change and cigarettes-some of them are violent- and there are menacing guards standing duty at all times. It is apparently where the police dump all the folks who are spun out but can't officially be booked for a crime. I don't mean to sound elitist in any sense, but the scene seems a little intense for me at the moment.
It will take me over an hour and two buses to get there on my own. And driving myself seems a little irresponsible given my current intake level. A big part of my drinking is about trying to get to a "safe" place (ridiculous as that is in reality) and I'm just freaked out right now about being in such a vulnerable situation. Not trying to make excuses here--just afraid and requesting support.
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I know it's mad - to get to a good place you have to go through this place to get there.
I wish I could drive the newbie bus over and we'd all sit together in the waiting room,
I can't.
I wish I had words of wisdom for you that would make it all ok.
I don't.
But I do know from experience - you do run out of tomorrows - we all do.
I did.
Don't be like me Soos and do nothing - I didn't die, I'm in reasonable shape after physiotherapy - but I was damn lucky.
You deserve not to live like this Soos.
Somethings got to give - let it be the drinking.
Me (and Mrs Dee) are with you, every step of the way, every tick of the clock.
hugs
D
I wish I could drive the newbie bus over and we'd all sit together in the waiting room,
I can't.
I wish I had words of wisdom for you that would make it all ok.
I don't.
But I do know from experience - you do run out of tomorrows - we all do.
I did.
Don't be like me Soos and do nothing - I didn't die, I'm in reasonable shape after physiotherapy - but I was damn lucky.
You deserve not to live like this Soos.
Somethings got to give - let it be the drinking.
Me (and Mrs Dee) are with you, every step of the way, every tick of the clock.
hugs
D
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