firstymer

Stay strong, Raider. We are all pulling for you.

Stoogy

Well done Pam, keep rackin the days up.

Straightshoot

Hope you feel better when you wake up tomorrow. Good going. Keep on truckin'

CodeJob

Pulling for you Ms. Sassy.

Taking5

I've been where you are - you can do it again.

I might add as a sidebar - some vanilla extracts contains more alcohol by % than wine. Make sure you use non-alcohol vanilla.

Anna

Yes, I remember the moment when I got 'amends' too. It's a bit overwhelming
but it can be a useful tool in not taking that first drink.

Congratulations, Raider!

Olive1

Proud of you, Raider.

iSPAZ

You got this Raider!!!! Glad your back I like reading your posts!!!

jdooner

WE do things when we are drunk that do not define us. What defines us is what we do about becoming that drunk. You are changing the process of becoming that angry person you don't like, which is dealing with your crap. Good on you for this Pam!

apophylite

Good job raider, I'm glad your back on the sober train

aussieblue

Keep moving forward Raider, glad your here.

Hevyn

I was astonished to find I was nasty and confrontational when drinking. That's the furthest thing from the real me - but at the end of my drinking days, people were telling me that's how I was. One of many reasons I just couldn't touch the stuff anymore.

Happy to know you're on your second day - and so proud.

Hawkeye13

As my drinking progressed, I lost the "happy" stage too and went right to mean.

You aren't alone.

Good job on Day One!

Butterfly

Praying for you stay strong

Dee74

(((Raider)))

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Kaneda8888

Don't give up Raider ! Perseverance is the key ! Behind you all the way !

tomsteve

raider, im very greatful to read ya made it back!!!
so, now that yer off the pity pot, onto the solution to staying stopped.
yer very intelligent and I know ya know there was something leading up to this- something that has to be changed; something to be worked on. so...what ya gonna change??? ya gotta do something different and yer dam well worth it!

Carlotta

So glad you made it back too
Maybe make a little gratitude list starting with a loving husband who might not always communicate well and can be horribly chirpy when you are detoxing but stuck with you all these years and of course second would be that little hairless Fuzz...

DoubleDragons

Raider, my mom is a hideously mean drunk. She is the only person in my life who has told that me she hates me . . . in a drunken rage. I don't think alcohol ever brings the best out in anybody.

not2late

I got "balls" when I drank and I'm a female. I was 10 feet tall and bullet proof. Now I'm 56 and having Hot flashes. I don't need alcohol to be a bi#$ch. It's coming naturally.