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Thank you so much for accepting me to this group.
I'm not new to recovery-I've currently been sober for 4 years, 4 months, and a matter of days
I first attempted reovery in 02. I completed a 6 month program in rehab, worked the steps, read the Big Book, and attended meetings. I graduated the program and moved out on my own.
I drank the first weekend after I left rehab.
I tried rehab a second time in the fall of 02, made it halfway through, and relapsed, but like a good trooper, I picked myself up, dusted myself off, and went right back to rehab
I graduated again in the spring of 04, got a decent job, and moved out with a very good friend that I made in rehab. (He's my best friend and roomate to this day)
Our first weekend in the new place we got our paychecks and headed for the bar.
This relapse was long term.
Over the years, I would get a job, work my way up to floor manager of a warehouse, then screw it up because I was drinking very heavily.
I went through several jobs in this fashion, and eventually I became basically unemployable.
I started bottle picking and dumpster diving to make beer money--nearly every penny I acquired went to feed my ever growing, ravenous need for alcohol.
Drunken nights, blackouts, police cars, drunk tanks--that was my life.
On the morning of Dec 28/12, I came to in an emergency room.
I had a concussion and six stiches just centimeters above my left eye where a dinner plate connected with my head at an out of control party the night before.
I knew right then that I was done drinking, but I didn't know how long I could make it.
I made it through that day, then decided to make it through another, then another, and a week passed and I had seven days of sobriety under my belt!!
The first few months were very difficult, then the going got easier, and one day ( so it seems now ) I realized that I no longer had any desire for alcohol, whatsoever!
Four years, four months, and twelve days later, and I have not had a drink; I have absolutely no desire to have a drink, and as long as I do what I did today every day, I never have to have a drink again.
My name is Dave and I was an alcoholic, and if I pick up a drink, I will continue to be an alcoholic.
God bless everyone who is on your first day of recovery
I'm not new to recovery-I've currently been sober for 4 years, 4 months, and a matter of days
I first attempted reovery in 02. I completed a 6 month program in rehab, worked the steps, read the Big Book, and attended meetings. I graduated the program and moved out on my own.
I drank the first weekend after I left rehab.
I tried rehab a second time in the fall of 02, made it halfway through, and relapsed, but like a good trooper, I picked myself up, dusted myself off, and went right back to rehab
I graduated again in the spring of 04, got a decent job, and moved out with a very good friend that I made in rehab. (He's my best friend and roomate to this day)
Our first weekend in the new place we got our paychecks and headed for the bar.
This relapse was long term.
Over the years, I would get a job, work my way up to floor manager of a warehouse, then screw it up because I was drinking very heavily.
I went through several jobs in this fashion, and eventually I became basically unemployable.
I started bottle picking and dumpster diving to make beer money--nearly every penny I acquired went to feed my ever growing, ravenous need for alcohol.
Drunken nights, blackouts, police cars, drunk tanks--that was my life.
On the morning of Dec 28/12, I came to in an emergency room.
I had a concussion and six stiches just centimeters above my left eye where a dinner plate connected with my head at an out of control party the night before.
I knew right then that I was done drinking, but I didn't know how long I could make it.
I made it through that day, then decided to make it through another, then another, and a week passed and I had seven days of sobriety under my belt!!
The first few months were very difficult, then the going got easier, and one day ( so it seems now ) I realized that I no longer had any desire for alcohol, whatsoever!
Four years, four months, and twelve days later, and I have not had a drink; I have absolutely no desire to have a drink, and as long as I do what I did today every day, I never have to have a drink again.
My name is Dave and I was an alcoholic, and if I pick up a drink, I will continue to be an alcoholic.
God bless everyone who is on your first day of recovery
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Welcome Dave. Thanks for sharing your story and congrats on 4+ years of sobriety. I didn't find this place until I was a year in to recovery, so you aren't the only late comer to the party! Keep sharing your experiences.
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