Hawkeye13

Well done on pouring out the wine--it is a big thing--the "old" us would never
"waste" wine by pouring it out.

Remember how many stale drinks we'd finish in the morning, hoping they were more booze than melted ice?

I want to encourage you with the PAWs symptoms--I also had that very badly and it does improve over time,
but there will be days where you "flash back" as you've described. With time these episodes get fewer and weaker.

The mental dullness made me crazy for awhile since I "think" for a living,
but with extended sobriety I turned some kind of corner and
now I can read and understand extremely abstract material to level I never could while actively in my addiction.

So you and, and will, be better than ever as sobriety becomes your new norm