Thread: The good stuff
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Old Jun 27, 2007, 02:02 PM
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Great stuff! Thanks!

Let's see, sober 3 years and 4 months

1. Not using my charge cards for booze anymore
2. Can be aware and take care of my 13 year old niece who is a type 1 diabetic - couldn't give her injections, etc. if the hands shook all the time.
3. Changed jobs at my employer - much less stress
4. Working at acknowedging feelings instead of numbing them.
5. MANY new friends that are nicer than some family members.
6. Met Charlie, my adopted grandad (who really could be my dad, but I like to think that he was the grandad I didn't have (mine abused me)).
7. An taking care of my illness instead of drinking and taking pain pills
8. Talk to my dad more often - he died 7 years ago and I talk to him all the time now
9. Little things don't become major difficulties like they use to - can let go easier
10. No more imprints in the shower curtain of my head - I use to sit on the toilet and start to pass out and would wake up when my head was going in the shower
11. Sponsored 2 teenage girls that I adore - one became a surrugote daughter to me and taught me so much - she was very insiring at 17 years old.
12. Have a fabulous sponsor who is there for me for what ever I need (I just need to learn to accept her help and call her more often!)

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