I have been reading these messages for about 3 weeks now and just decided to join up and post myself.
I have known that I am an alcoholic for years and years now, gave it up once before. So it's been about 3 weeks for me this time.
The straw that broke the camels back for me was...
I decided to get a bottle of wine and relax in front of the tv. (you know... what "normal" people do) Of course I bought the big 1.5 liter bottle....
The next morning I woke up and the oven had been on all night at like 450 degrees, and I had urinated on the kitchen floor. I vaguely remembered the fact that I LEFT MY HOUSE when the wine ran out IN MY PIJAMAS and was hanging all over some guy at a bar. I remember some woman telling me to GO HOME. I don't remember anything after that and I don't even remember leaving my apartment. Just those little bits and pieces while I was out. I couldn't believe I had done this again.
So when I was finally able to get up I looked up alcoholics anonymous for the first time ever.
I haven't gone to a meeting yet but I think I would like to.
I really have enjoyed reading everybody's posts. I check this site out every couple of days to re-motivate me. It helps a lot. I want to keep this in the forefront of my mind so that I don't slip up.
I have lost so many friends and even a fiance because of this disease. I don't have a compulsion to drink daily or even weekly but when I do.. look out!
So I just wanted to introduce myself. I'll probably be posting comments on other people's threads from time to time.
Welcome to MIP. So nice to see new members join us all for our common welfare. Your story brought back memories of my own, and helped me remember how strong a foe alcohol really is for me. Stick around and help us all stay sober! You'll be in my prayers!
Welcome JENNIFER! Your feeling powerless(drinking against your will) and your life is unmanageable(good thing you weren't cookin a chicken huh!)Grab a seat and join us!
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Aloha Jenn, that is a pretty good example of the disease in control. It's good to have you finally peek in the door of MIP. There is no one here that will hold you back from going to meetings (1 is never enough) so clean up the mess; get out of the jammers and into something comfortable and clean and GO TO MEETINGS!!. Come learn what we've learned and come help keep yourself, us and others sober. That 450 degree oven could have been the end of your final drunk...let a meeting do it. They are much cooler. (((hugs)))
Thank you guys so much for the welcomes. It's tough to admit that you have done such stupid stuff but I really wanted to get it off my chest. And honestly, that one incident is the tip of the iceberg I call my life.
I'm really really REALLY serious about stopping drinking.
Welcome Jenn, Thanks for making it her and keeping me sober another day! Having expressed a desire to stop drinking, you are now a member of the coolest club in the world; AA. You have millions of friends that you haven't met yet, a spiritual journey ahead of you that is BOTH deeply profound AND tailored to fit YOU.
Hi Jen, happy 3 weeks and please get to a meeting!!! I could have saved myself a big relapse after 2.5 years sober a few weeks ago, if i had only STILL been going to meetings regularly. Please don't make the same mistake I did!! The trouble it caused me and the beating that drinking delivered to me 2 weeks ago could have been avoided.... if I had goen to AA that night. I might be able to move my right hand tonight had I gone to a meeting instead of dirnking. i suffered nerve damage on my last drunk.... pretty serious, so please please learn from MY mistakes. All I did was pass out drunk on my arm the wrong way- i am only 38 and now may have problems writing for the rest fo my life!! But even with all that going on, the meetings I have been to since that night, since i decided to come back, have helped me to cope and have made me very happy to be here and sober, regardless!! Get to a meeting before alcohol gets you!!
With love and hugs, Joni
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Hi Jenn, welcome. Can relate to your experience entirely. What finally brought me in was something kind of like yours. It was my wife saying to me "do you really mean what you said last night." I still have absolutely no recollection of what I said to her (though through the deft questioning that alkies like me are good it, it turned out to be something that she wanted to hear and she was surprised that I had finally given in on it, lol). In the past, there had been lots of "do you know you did last night"s -- bad things all -- but they didn't bring me in. This was the final one. I realized that normal people are not in that situation when they wake up in the morning.
Anyway, I tried on-line AA for a while, it was very helpful in fact. But the big difference was getting to a meeting -- the on-line stuff helped me to develop the courage to go. I realized once I went that getting to meetings would give me a fighting chance of staying sober.
