The Giving Up/ Cutting Down alcohol support thread - number 13

CountingPenniesClaire

2/21 for me today please shaggy. Love n hugs to all xx

Dizzy_Imp

2/31 for me please Shaggy x

CountingPenniesClaire

Declaring super super early as think it is going to be a busy one. 3/21 for today please shaggy xxxx

cathybird

Morning all! 2/15 for me please Shaggy.

Arkers

Good Morning 2/15 for me please Shaggy.
Arkers x

Honey_Bear

Thank you everyone for your support. It's much appreciated, but I feel the need to say that I found her behaviour when she'd been drinking from lunchtime onwards quite challenging, so we weren't as close as a 40 year friendship should have made us. We were both part of a biggish group of people who did something spectacular (no thanks to our own efforts, we were just in the right place at the right time) 40 years ago, and Jane was the person who organised all the reunions, so she was a important person to all of us. I'm closer to someone who was very, very close to Jane, and she's much sadder and more tearful than I am. I just wanted Jane to be okay, other people needed her to pull through and be around for another 25 years with the rest of us. Knowing, absolutely knowing it was the booze is really difficult for me.

Dizzy_Imp wrote: »

So sorry to hear this - sending hugs x It must be very difficult for you. You say you're thankful for the support you've been given, which is lovely. I'm thanking you for yours - as I really think your contribution on this thread has kept me trying to quit. :kisses3:

Thank you so much, and hang on in there, Dizzy. It's lovely on the sober-side and it was worth working on breaking down the mental block about alcohol.

I'd known for two or three years that I couldn't go on as I was, that I was heading down a one way street, very fast, and that I had to do something about it. The first few weeks were tough but actually easier than giving up smoking, and I loved smoking, but it gets easier and easier for me. I'm not advocating total abstinence for everyone, I don't believe in prohibition but for those of us who don't have a STOP button - the sooner we tackle it, the better. My broken wrist - falling over, !!!!!! on my birthday - wasn't enough to make me stop, but it was certainly enough when I went through the most thorough questionnaire I did, to mean that I had to answer 'Yes' to the 'Have you ever injured yourself when drunk?' There was one incident that was the turning point and I think the build up to it, the thinking about it and the knowledge that there was a lot of online support was key to stopping permanently.

maman wrote: »

So sorry to hear about your friend HB. A colleague of my DH died on Monday. She fell over (not alcohol related) on Saturday evening, hit her head and died of the brain trauma in less than 48 hours. It's making us feel very mortal but also very fortunate at the moment.:)

(((Hugs)) for you and your DH, Maman. It's just such a shock when we realise how fragile our grasp on life is.

Welcome back, Cuppa!

3/31 please, Shaggy.

ManPants

So calling in 2/31 AF for last night......


You'd think I'd invented the wheel, but it is such an easy equation that I generally forget.
Last night I didn't drink so I'm up early getting stuff done and have no injuries and broken limbs.
Two nights ago I had alcohol so I ended up drinking to excess, broke my big toe and lost another day as I was sooooo hungover and sick. I get nothing done and feel remorseful all day - in between swallowing water and painkillers.

Thank you Cathybird & Satchmo. I fell on a stairs going to bed (4.30am last social media tracing) and hyper - flexed my big toe creating a fracture,bruising, swelling.
Welcome back CuppaTea - I don't practice what I preach but regularly keeping in contact with this thread does help.

HoneyBear - you've gone all 007 on us! Sounds intriguing! :-)

Hope you all have a good day. I'm heading to AA later on.

SPS X

gabriel1980

Good Morning. 17/30 for me now

piggles1

satchmo1 wrote: »

Piggles, how are you tonight?

Thanks satchmo and thanks everyone for the well wishes. My friend came over and did some stuff that I can't do, and it was already 9.30pm afterwards so a good opportunity to not bother with drinking anything, unfortunately I did again after they'd gone.

When I was small, stealing and drinking whatever alcohol I could find was the only way I knew how to cope with feeling unloved and not in control of any of my surroundings. I feel back there again, totally lost, not in control of anything and a bit scared. I don't even know where am. And now I'm just a drunk, again.

I can see logically it could be nice here and I'll get it sorted, and there's a park and I can hear the birds in my garden. So it must be temporary feeling like this.

I've got to get to the point where I 'buy in' to where I am, but I'm resisting at the moment I think. Probably a delayed reaction to having to move so suddenly and everything was nearby and now it's not. That can't be changed.

And yes, surrounded by boxes, curtains, big folded up bits of carpet I keep tripping over, furniture everywhere. I hope to post a no-alcohol result soon and I'll keep trying even if I'm failing at the moment. The light at the end of the tunnel is tiny, but it is there.

Honey Bear I'm so sorry to hear about your friend and the effect it's had on you and others. I'll also say you're an inspiration to me on this thread and what you've achieved shows a real resolve. Take care, ((hugs)) from me.

shaggy thanks for changing my total

shaggydoo

Afternoon :hello:

1 ALD for yesterday.



Shaggyx