Congratulations on getting a sponsor!
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So sorry for your loss Chris. My heart goes out to you. Happy for you that youāre not using it as an excuse to drink. This just proves how far youāve come.
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Monday morning. Day 53.
Recently I have starting getting lazy about sobriety activities. Before I got up and was eager to watch my video, write my stuff, but now I tend to get distracted by other daily stuff and have to force myself to do it. I know I am perfectly in the danger zone of getting complacent, and must do it even if I feel I donāt āneedā it today. Sobriety is always a work in progress, never a finished task.
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Day 6 sober. A day in the Church and with family members. I feel more encouraged. I hope tomorrow to enjoy the sober week
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End of day 5 and to bed sober,ā¦ amazing,was just thinking what a horrific detox i went throughā¦still going through I think,still taking it slowly.tired,hope I sleep well.thank you .
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143 Days. Life is really hard lately. Iām taking 2 steps forward and one back. My AA meetings and TS family are keeping me clean and sober. I know drinking or drugging will not make things better. I need to keep a clear head to face all this head on.
Ran out of oil which means no heat in the house. Thankful for a wood stove to keep us warm. It doesnāt heat the entire house but itās enough to keep us from freezing. Hopefully tomorrow our oil delivery will come.
Found out my car is not fixable and has to be junked. I work 30 miles from home. Mass transit not an option. It would take 3 hours which includes 2 ubers, a train and a bus to get there. My husband is giving me his truck and heāll use a work truck until we get another car. The cost in gas is gonna hurt financially.
My dog hasnāt been well. After $400, the vet says itās allergies combined with anxiety of being alone all day and chewing his paws.
Iām relying on my HP and my gratitude list to get thru all this. Iām thankful I can work overtime to make up some of my losses. Iām thankful we have the work truck to use. Iām thankful for the small wood burning stove to keep us warm for now.
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Day 7
Going to bed early sober and clean.
Delighted. Good night lovely people.
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Day 35, itās going pretty easy!
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WOW Lisa! Thatās a lot. So very very sorry 
I guess all you can do is plough ahead. Big hugs 
I feel you. 
This has been my life with Josie for about 5 years.
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Oh Lisa you really are going through a rough patch. Iām so sorry there seems to be one thing after another coming at you. Iām so proud of you for staying sober through all of this!! Stay strong sister. Weāre here for you! 
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Checking in, day 74. I realize I sometimes think of people with over 100 continuous days as a whole separate category, as if yāall are a different species. Thatās a funny, silly thought. Maybe we are actually all in this together, working on today. Have a good sober day.
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End of day 14. Tomorrow is another milestone! One day at a time.
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Today Iām checking in, 8 days sober.
I was told earlier that a guy I graduated high school with died because he literally drank himself to death. Iām 28 years old.
I feel terrible that he lost his life so early.
And at the same time, it makes me want to keep going and keep fighting even harder for my own life.
This is my third ārealā attempt at sobriety. Iāve known I had a problem and that I wanted to quit for a little over 2 years now. Iāve had countless resets after short 3 day breaks from drinking. Two times before this I made it to 30-35 days.
Like before, Iāve started out feeling confident that Iām done drinking for good. I just really hope this feeling lasts this time and that I stay strong & sober no matter what.
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@Sassenach Sorry about your friend, that is WAY too young. For me there are sinister and deeper thoughts that pop up from time to time about alcohol. Itās easy to think about not drinking for one reason or another, joking about how fun it was back in the day, or how great it is that weāre not doing it now. But thereās a more deadly part of addiction thatās very real and only a bottle or two away for many of us. Iāve had two people in my immediate family die from alcohol, both cirrhosis and other related illnesses. A story like yours scares the shit out of me and makes me realize it could be me. Soldier on Sassenach and everyone else too !
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Iām so sorry for your loss. It makes us really think about our own sobriety. This disease kills and it sucks! We canāt allow ourselves to become another statistic and we donāt have to, as long as we keep using all our tools.
Unfortunately, I found a close friend dead on her bedroom floor, from alcohol, when I was only 40 days sober. It crushed me and I often think about her when Iām struggling.
The saying goes, we all have another relapse in us but not all of us have another recovery.
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100? Give me 30! Iām at THREE WEEKS today woohoo. This makes it one of the longest sober periods in my adult life. Trucking on to 4 weeks and beyond. Thanks everyone for your companionship and support!
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Sad. Thatās how they found my uncle, after 10 days or so. On the floor, alone, dead from alcohol.
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Omg! Iām so sorry! Itās so much harder when itās family. Sending you big hugs. 
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He was more or less estranged from the family. It was kind of like Lisaās experience mention way up above: a relative you havenāt been in touch with for a long time suddenly is dead. Itās not really grief. But itās not really closure. Either way itās a wake up call for people like me. Thereās a way to avoid that outcome!
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@Lisa07 @Abacus thank you guys, truthfully he was someone I hadnāt even seen the 10 years Iāve been out of high school but he was always a nice kid. It just really sucks that he never got the help he needed, like so many other people out there. Because you guys are right, it could happen to any of us! Itās truly scary and eye-opening.
Lisa, Iām so sorry about your friend and Erik Iām so sorry about your uncle. If youāre ever struggling and need someone to talk to feel free to message me! Iām so grateful for all of you guys and this forum.
We must soldier on indeed and use every tool available to us to keep us on the right path.
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