1 year!! Outstanding!
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I understand your anxiety, and Iām praying for your dad. My mom had bypass surgery 1-1/2 years ago, and it was really scary. Of course, the doctors and nurses have to let us know the complications associated with the procedure, and all that could go wrong, but try to focus on everything that will go right. Once heās up and healing, heās going to feel so much better. Just the increased oxygen, the ability to breathe better, makes a huge difference. I wish him well, and he, you, and your family are all on my heart. 
P.S. Itās interesting how much strength I had during my momās hospital stay, when I went into it worrying about falling apart. I think weāre sometimes able to just shake it all off and be strong for our loved ones when thereās no other way to be. Sending you strength, too.
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Thank you so much for your kind wordsā¦ I really appreciate it 
I find it quite hard to deal with those feelings when some close gets ill, I havenāt learned how to cope with those feels yet. Normaly I just drink them away and everything will be just fine.
At the moment I am feeling fine. Taking care of myself is the best think I can do at the moment.
Thank for you advice 
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Damn Menno that sucks losing your phone, hope the bruises are not that bad. Wish you all the best 
Luckily you have still some nice pictures on your old phone 
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Iām OK friend, thanks for asking. Might not have been totally clear on the pic. This pic is from this afternoon, an hour before I lost my phone. Whatsapped it to a friend, so I still have it. As well as the rest of the pics, they are on google photos 
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Thinking of you and your dad. Sure it will be OK, but heart surgery is heart surgery. I understand that itās scary stuff.
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I am glad you didnāt get hurt too much. Hope you recover quickly 
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Thanks Menno
And good you still have the photoāsā¦ God bless google 
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Congratulations on your 
months milestone.
This is a amazing achievement and must give you a great feeling.
Enjoy this feelingā¦ youāve earned it! 
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@Mno glad you are basically unscathed. Glad you werenāt drunk and landing on your face passed out in a ditch.
@ShadowFax thinking about and sending good thoughts to all of you for your Dadās surgery. Keep in touch here how youāre doing and how he is
@everyone congratulations on all days not using the DOC!
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Gosh thanks so much. It really does feel Great !
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Midday check inā¦
Feeling better emotionally. Work is going well but the client I am working with this weekend is abit more aggressive than yesterday. Makes me stay on my toes lol at least she cleans up and picks up her couch and table after tossing it around and trashing her place. Heading home in 2.5 hours to some homemade Sheppards pie. Yummm. Staying focused on recovery today. I have big plans for tomorrow. Exercise at 6am is top priority tomorrow. Along with meditation. So far the day is looking up 
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Thank you Alisa! I will keep in touch
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@Bobby38 congrats on your week 
@Freckles congrats on your week
@Callie99 congrats on staying sober when your friend bought wine into your home
@Jennajen thank you
@ShadowFax prayers that all goes well with your fatherās surgery today 
@Charlie_C congrats on your year 
@Sammyy welcome back congrats on 2 days
@5th_dimension I love this energy 
@Mno sorry about the fall and your phone, I hope the injuries arenāt too painful tomorrow glad youāve seemingly been able to access your photos 
@Laraellelarissa congrats on 9 months
461 days no alcohol.
429 days no cocaine.
22 days no nicotine.
Really struggling this evening with craving a vape. Been craving it since I was on my way home from the meal this afternoon, so for around 5 hours now. Gah!
The meal went mostly okay, I find it so hard to navigate all the different conversations that go on around a table and I always come home wondering if I abandoned any conversations through being distracted by another one, and then I worry incase Iāve upset anyone. I am also feeling like I may have overshared in the car from the restaurant to my dadās (where my car was), because I was talking about my lack of motivation/suspected ADHD in relation to doing, or not being able to do, everyday things, and it makes me feel ashamed, responses were dismissive, that doesnāt help.
I have been doing a lot of mental work this weekend on āletting goā of dieting. Itās so fkin hard! But since dieting leads to bingeing, and subsequent weight gain, it isnāt going to achieve what I hope to achieve by doing it in the first place. This sucks too because I just feel like itās another thing Iāve failed at, because I canāt stick to a diet no matter how desperately I want to lose weight! So at 6am tomorrow morning, I am going to the supermarket to do grocery shopping for the first time in two months, to buy real food, to make substantial meals, as per my meal plan from therapy, and I am going to once again, ānormalize my eating behavioursā. If I could, I would cry, because Iām so conflicted, I know it will take many years to reach a healthy weight eating ānormallyā, I just really hope my longer term psychotherapy starts soon so I can stay focused on the goal of healing from the eating disorder rather than on the goal of loosing as much weight as quickly as possible.
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. C o n g r a t u l a t I o n s Charlie !!!
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Day 119 off of beer and nicotine gum. Happy Sunday to all! Continuing to enjoy my diet and intermittent fasting. Will visit my Uncle in hospice with advancing esophagus and liver cancer. A happy 80 years and boundless love as an Anglican minister. Iām so health conscious mindset now the poisons have no place in my life now.
@ShadowFax best wishes for your Dadās surgery
@Mno Thank goodness no broken bones! Stay safe out there, We need you here. Sucks about your phone : (
@Charlie_C Big congrats on your year clean! 
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9 months! Wow!!! Iām so happy for you. Huge congratulations! The next 9 months are gonna be even better.
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How was your day Mike . Well done on a month sober
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Thank you Carolyn !! šŖ“
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Day 225. Had a headache most of dayā:neutral_face:
ā¦ had to give in and have a couple of Ibuprofen. ā¦my daughter was off school last week with a headache and practically got kicked out cos they assume itās CVidā¦ glad Iām sober still. Glad Iām in bed.
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