muffy, thanks so much for sharing your experiences with alcoholism and addiction regarding your sister. they say they are "family diseases" and you know first hand how much a family suffers when a member is ill with these deadly diseases. i am thankful that you were God's "messenger" for your sister...yet so many of us in recovery know that we could have ignored the "message" and would probably be dead from these diseases of addiction.
it is, in my mind, "God's grace" that gave me that moment of sanity to seek help. my best friend mary jane got the same message but ended in death due to not being able to grasp on for dear life what she needed to do. we often wonder why some of us "get it" and some of us don't.
i'm so happy for your sister and hope she will continue to reap the "rewards" of sobriety.
thank goodness you are a part of your sister's new life.
many who recover are not so fortunate.