Hello all:

My utmost apologies for not being on this newsgroup for a while. It's
been quite a long time since I have posted anything telling about my
progress and how I am handling sobriety.

I am still sober, I haven't had one drop of alcohol since I was on here
last and I don't plan on relapsing nor do plan on any "recreational"
drug use. I did have a situation where I ended up in the hospital for a
couple of days because I was prescribed percocet and it constipated me.
Long story short, my colon blew up and I had to go to the emergency room
and they gave me morphine and Benadryl. I did not like having either
drugs in my system.

So it has been almost 2 years since declaring my sobriety. As of August
28, 2007 I will be officially 2 years sober (minus the trip to the
hospital).

Needless to say, I haven't been to an AA meeting for quite some time as
I feel I don't need to attend (some people might disagree and will
suggest that I DO attend but I just feel right now that I don't have
to). I had problems with depression and thoughts of needing a drink
before but I do everything to keep myself from thinking about it and
it's all a day to day conquest. It's all not as hard for me as it used
to be. Yet, I KNOW, there is always that chance that I could relapse.

I am looking forward to keeping up this momentum.

Thank you for everyone's support.

Happy health and life to all of you.

Monty