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

Montgomery BOO...URNS wrote:
> 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).

You only have to go until you want to go.(of coarse it's your own choice)

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

Keep up the good work.

On Aug 6, 12:12 pm, "Montgomery BOO...URNS" <solitude...@rcn.com>
wrote:
> 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

See, Monty, that is where I was a year ago, but then I hit a hard time
and my sponsor explained to me that when we don't feel that we need to
be there, that is when we need to go for others....what would we have
done if we showed up for our first meeting and no one was there? It
is not all about us today. )

> 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).

You are either going to rot in Hell,
or you recovered from your drinking. Just as promised !

>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.
>
Well ..refresh you AA meetings exposure just once MORE and it will
quickly encourage you not to drink .. and enforce you
will to stay away from AA for another stunt !


> Happy health and life to all of you.
>
Happy mental health to you too.

Been There.


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