rPdopn

I hope I am not digging too deep in personal lives, but I was thinking yesterday how people came to there nicknames on this website. If this is too much, please let me know and I will get rid of this thread.
I can start with me: about 12 years ago I was golfing with my dad. I ate lunch after the 9th hole and later that night, threw it up during dinner. The next morning I woke up throwing up pure blood into my toilet. After a few more sessions of this, I called my Mom and she drove me to the emergency room. To make a long story short, the amount of alcohol I had consumed the previous year thinned out the lining of my esophagus and when I threw up, I tore open a hole and blood started to fill my stomach until I had to let it out. Emergency surgery had to be done and the doctors had to cut me open (a scar over my stomach after 27 staples) just to get to the hole and sew it up. I have used rpdopn (ripped open) on everything I do to remind me of that moment. I am 34 now, and that did not stop me then to stop drinking, nor did the DWI, the almost collapse of my family, the infidelity of myself to my wife, no the latest checkup of my throat that revealed a cyst on the original scar on my throat. I've been sober after another week of binging EVEN AFTER THAT!!
Again, I apologize if this is too prying, but I appreciate and love the stories I read here every week and am always a knowledge hound.

MidnightBlue

Hi, rPdopn, glad to see you)

You may find this thread interesting as well. And it explains mine)

http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...represent.html

Have fun)

MIRecovery

I live in Michigan so MIRecovery but is pronounced My Recovery.

grandma12

Mine is a typo lol my daughter in law was setting this up for me, i totaly am stupid on comp, I really am a grandma to 11. Enjoy your day

renaldo

Mine is named after a band called Renaldo and the Loaf. I hardly even like them, but I think I tried a couple of names that didn't get accepted and then that just popped into my head. I didn't even bother with an avatar, so I'm not making a statement about my personality.

KissMyTiara

Because I like to think I am a princess. heh heh heh

escapist

Mine is obvious if you are an alcoholic

rPdopn

Midnight, I guess I should start reading a little further back, huh??!?! Ha! Well, it is still
awesome to hear people's meanings. It truly makes one stand out from the rest.
Mirecovery: Subliminal and meaningful, great combo! Grandma: congrats on 12...hope you are setting a great example to all of them!
Renaldo: I think I may have to check out just how bad they are!
Kiss: awesome way of making that message known!
Escapist: I think that is one of the best, most profound ways to answer a one word statement of addiction.

LookingOut

I wanted a new name different from what I used on other sites. I was just thinking about looking out the window, but when it accepted Looking Out, I just kept that. Now I think that it means looking out at my future which I am trying to do sober.

thegoodlife

Was what I wanted when I first stopped drinking. It is fast becoming what I have.

rPdopn

Lookingout, keep up the good fight. Plenty of good days ahead. I am just past my 3 months and feel great. I think one of the things I appreciate now is when a bad situation comes up, I actually react in a way that I can remember later, not just hit the bottle and react negatively, black out, then find out how much of an **shole I was! Now I can act like an idiot without liquid motivation!

FreeFall

I feel like getting sober is like a freefall-you don't really know where or how you're going to land, but it's a cool journey and you feel like so many chains have been lifted from you when you stop.

OneLessLonely

I wanted to be one less lonely, drunk person in the world.

Deleteda

I chose Peacehappyness because that is how I want to be able to feel

ru12

Mine was a question, perhaps to myself: "Are you one too?"

Lyoness

Mine is a variation on a family name. Plus I really love and resonate with cats. Also hoping for the strength of a lioness in my journey too.

lilyrosemary

Hi, i am a huge bob dylan fan and he has a song entitled "lily, rosemary, and the jack of hearts" hence, lilyrosemary.

beherenow

Because I'm always striving to be here now...be in the present moment

WastedTimes

Cool thread rPdopn, thanks for starting. Mine is just a reference to the fact that all those times I spent wasted, were really just wasted...

least

Mine is from Mathew 25:40. "That which you do unto the least of these, my brethren, you do unto me." It reminds me to treat others well and it reminds me that I, too, am one of "the least of these".