Army Boot Camp 23/11/15

[starty]

Actually, I am OK today JC. The injection worked really well and I am just a dribbling mess but not in pain. Much less pain than when my tooth was there. So I feel grateful

[JackieClaire]

Are you going to put it under your pillow?

[JackieClaire]

Had a wee google...........natural remedies like arnica and cloves might help if the worst happens and don't drink through a straw.

[starty]

No, unfortunately the dentist had to cut it in 3 to get it out. I don't think the tooth fairy accepts broken teeth

[starty]

Had a wee google...........natural remedies like arnica and cloves might help if the worst happens and don't drink through a straw.

I have some clove oil and arnica, so far seems OK though. I will gargle with salt water in a bit. I won't succumb to the pills.

[JackieClaire]

No, unfortunately the dentist had to cut it in 3 to get it out. I don't think the tooth fairy accepts broken teeth

I think you get more because the TF feels sorry for you.

[Choices]

Ouch Starty! I think the tooth fairy gives more for broken teeth! JC Never again would I travel alone with a toddler! She probably needed something to sedate her haha. And not just because I was driven to drink again.

[JackieClaire]

Luckily we didn't fly with the kids until they were about 10ish.............the threat of death was enough to keep them quiet.

[starty]

If I put them under my pillow she will probably leave me a new set of dentures

[JackieClaire]

That's what I got. Just partials though. Been to the dentist's so much since January he's coming for Chrimbo dinner.

[NoSugar]

Morning everyone,

Well, when I first came to MWO it was 2010 and I lived in New Zealand but I had just moved here from Mexico... I'd lived in Mexico off and on for 10 years because that is where my mother lived. But I am an American. In my first year sober I went home to Mexico and the states and posted A LOT during that time... Mainly on Sunbeams Sober September, October, extra challenges.. Where I met you Molly along with anon and a bunch of really lovely ladies. That thread was great but then (as it sometimes happens). There was a bad apple.. And the whole thing fizzled out. I posted quite a bit up until 2012... Was sober for my wedding.. All good, fell pregnant on the honeymoon... And then just kinda stopped posting. My head space while pregnant was all about snips and snails, and ginger and spice, prams, tiny cloths.. Drinking was a distant memory. It was taking my one year old home to meet my family in the states (mom is back there now) that I had no idea how vulnerable I would become towards taking another drink. I didn't drink the entire trip, didn't crave, watched family and friends drink.., no problem. I had a massive fight with my sister a day before I left that has turned into pretty much falling out with her.. And it continued on when she dropped me off at the airport... Traveling with a toddler is tough enough... Etc.. So when offered the free glass of wine on the plane, and getting my head prepared for a 12 hour flight sharing my seat with a screaming toddler... I caved and took the drink. I wasn't craving it... I just didn't say no. After close to 4 years sober. After that I was back drinking for 18 months.. Now I'm back again in MWO. So learned again, drinking and me are not a good mix!

That is quite a story, Choices. The part in bold is what I can see happening to me if I don't actively keep my situation in mind. I feel fine. It would be very easy to "forget" that I absolutely can't and don't want to drink.

Would you consider putting that post in this thread?:https://www.mywayout.org/community/ge...etrospect.html

If anyone else who has returned (Starty, Tabbers?) would be willing to contribute to that thread, I know I and I suspect others would really appreciate it! It is a good thread to peruse anytime I'm feeling like I'm "different" than y'all --- I read those stories and realize that in this, we have more that unites us than divides us. And why not learn from others?

Anyway, Choices, I'm glad you're doing so well. I'm very inspired by your posts -- they help me recommit to this fine way of living. xx, NS

[satz123]

Tricky business this addiction lark.

Pain in the arse Starts

Salutary lesson Choices - thank you for that. :thumbsup:

[IamMary]

Quick check in.. read back, I was just feeling like that this week, like Im never going to be NOT on guard..more pressure at the moment with gatherings planned for Christmas i suppose.
Its worrying that one day, we might just not pay attention or forget. I have a little procedure coming up and I was reading the blurb earlier, it said: No alcohol for 24 hours prior... Well for a moment I panicked, very briefly. It was nice to know that this does not apply to me as I do not drink, but still, Brain, you are slow to catch up sometimes.

Good post Choices.

[NoSugar]

but still, Brain, you are slow to catch up sometimes.

Thanks for the laugh, Mary :haha:!

I think we need to stay on guard but I don't really think it takes too much time and effort to do that - for me, checking in here does it and because I enjoy that, it is actually a good part of my day. I agree with Molly that that is one of the main points of AA but since I would never go to a public meeting, I'm really thankful for MWO and the easy access to 24/7 support.

It is cool not to have to worry about enforced abstinence, isn't it? Today the doctor said he assumed I didn't consume recreational drugs and I blurted out "or alcohol". It kind of bugs me that no one - doctors or even the health gurus who are really intense about no sugar - won't touch that third rail of drinking. If you believe all the reasons we shouldn't eat sugar, there is no way to sanction drinking alcohol... but they do. They probably know that no one will listen to them if their message includes no booze.

[starty]

I agree NS. Alcohol is so socially acceptable that that for doctors to even consider advising anyone to stop just wouldn't happen. Unless you are unfortunate enough to be at end stage liver failure I guess.

Yes, I too need to keep on my guard and keep my sobriety at the forefront of my mind. It is all too easy to become complacent and to forget where we will end up. Which btw is ALWAYS worse off than we were previously.