April Army 2020

[mollyka]

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Evening folks...really sorry not posting..I'm literally running on empty and I know I should be here..and supportive..particularly you Benjy...I can only imagine how tricky it all must be...does he want to stop drinking or is he just trying to please you do you think?
Delighted you have the cottage Rusters..wonder are we close? I think Jilly is doing her big move this week..well that's it...I'm going to bed..the wee baby is still on a ventilator and may have to be lifted to Rotunda or Temple St. Hopefully it won't come to that.
Night folks xx

[JackieClaire]

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[MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION]...........sorry I had to shoot off. I was at church not doing godly stuff there's a craft thing hat goes on in one of their rooms.
How's the patient?...............I had Jenny (she wasn't not long back from Uni for the holidays) to keep an eye on me during the day until Mr JC got in and he took over when I did my last de-tox. I'll not lie but it was horrible. In a way I'm glad it was so rough because I'm never want to go through it again. The sweat poured out of me and my 20 year old daughter looking after her drunk of a mother, shamed me to the core.

Oddly I had a phone call from a friend today who used to call AA all colours of crap. Actually had a few phone calls over the last 3/4 weeks and he's praising them to the skies. Meeting him for a coffee tomorrow so I'm going to grill him why,what and how he's changed his attitude.

Molls, me darling thinking about you and your family. :hug:

[satz123]

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Evening all.
Molls don't worry about me - you've given advice along with Jacks so many times before & I've remembered it all.
I'm hoping the little one is ok - babies are often much tougher than we think :hug:


For those still awake & interested :haha:
Day 2 in the Satz house.

I'm doing Nurse Ratched & doling out the pills. Very tempted to take one myself.

Dunno if he's doing it for us or himself. To be honest I don't give a f*ck anymore because either way it has to be done.
He can't live here & drink we just can't take it. He lives like a pig when he's drinking. It's just horrible. Myself & his father had to almost fumigate the bedroom after only 3 days. Bottles everywhere & bedclothes stained from wine & beer. Remnants if food everywhere. YUK !

If he goes back to the bench - he'll be dead within a year.
Enough about YS anyway - he's damn lucky to have us at this stage.
@JackieClaire I'll be waiting to see what your mate has to say about AA.
Hope everyone else is ok ?

ps JAcks - do you know you named this thread April 2020 ?.

[IamMary]

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Ha, well spotted [MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION], 6 days in before anyone noticed!

Good to hear you are on the right path with YS. Sure what else can you do right now. Hows his form? Did he say why he decided to drink that day?
Thats a lot of detoxing [MENTION=7008]JackieClaire[/MENTION], you are the expert on this :happy2:

Sons 18Th today.. a low key affair, he hates fuss, but it was lovely. Himself and Mr M are off to the imperial war museum in London on sat. Means I have to drop them at 4am! Of course that would have put me in a real pickle 7+ years ago.. how much to drink on a friday night.

Thinking of your poor grandchild Molly. Is she still at home? Hows she doing?

Day off tomorrow, quick visit to kildare village with himself in the morning, the homeless look is not working anymore, now that we have to ‘go out’.

[brit]

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Good morning. Sorry to have been missing, I have been feeling fluey, aching and sniffly but testing negative for Covid. Worried a bit as my Oslo daughter is coming home tomorrow.

Oh Molly what a worry for you hopefully baby will be off the ventilator soon.

Satz I don't have anything to contribute with words of wisdom, I cannot imagine the distress in your home.

Love to the rest of you. I am going to do a Lydia Languish on the couch.

[satz123]

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Good morning. Sorry to have been missing, I have been feeling fluey, aching and sniffly but testing negative for Covid. Worried a bit as my Oslo daughter is coming home tomorrow.

Oh Molly what a worry for you hopefully baby will be off the ventilator soon.

Satz I don't have anything to contribute with words of wisdom, I cannot imagine the distress in your home.

Love to the rest of you. I am going to do a Lydia Languish on the couch.

Morning MsA - keep testing it will show eventually. I couldn't even see the very faint line on my first test. The latest varient is very mild - what you have sounds as bad as it gets.
OR maybe it's just flu ? :eek-new:

[JackieClaire]

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Morning
[MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION].............. I hadn't noticed I'd put 2020. It wasn't an April fool believe.............prolly me just me being half asleep. I feel I right tool.

[MENTION=22839]brit[/MENTION]..........it could just be a stinker of a cold...........not everything is covid other illnesses are available. Get yourself Lydia Laguishing now.

[MENTION=22411]IamMary[/MENTION]..............shamefully it is a lot of de-toxes. But I got there in the end. Don't know why or how this quit stuck must have been everything I learnt over the past de-toxes and MWO was a lot busier when I started to post. I don't think I've got another one in me. I also had a brilliant counselor and I listened.

Thinking of Molls and her family. :hug:

[JackieClaire]

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[MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION]...............I'm meeting this bloke tomorrow and I'll ask him what changed his mind...........he used to be very anti AA. He even sounds different on the phone.............after his years of hating AA its going to be pretty good conversation.

[mollyka]

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Thinking of your poor grandchild Molly. Is she still at home? Hows she doing?

Baby is 4 days old Mary - he's still in the maternity hospital but is being moved into a specialist hospital tonight we think -- unless he turns a corner before 8pm

Good morning. Sorry to have been missing, I have been feeling fluey, aching and sniffly but testing negative for Covid. Worried a bit as my Oslo daughter is coming home tomorrow.

Oh Molly what a worry for you hopefully baby will be off the ventilator soon.

Satz I don't have anything to contribute with words of wisdom, I cannot imagine the distress in your home.

Love to the rest of you. I am going to do a Lydia Languish on the couch.

Does sound like a false result alright -- apparently up to 30% of antigen tests are wrong???! How are you feeling this evening MrsA?

[MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION]...............I'm meeting this bloke tomorrow and I'll ask him what changed his mind...........he used to be very anti AA. He even sounds different on the phone.............after his years of hating AA its going to be pretty good conversation.

The auld AA conversation... two points I would make -- their own saying 'take what you need and leave the rest' is often ignored by the critics... you don't have to do ANY religion - or steps - or sponsors - or anything -- all I ever did was go to a few meetings if and when I felt I wanted or needed to. That was enough for me... I have no religion... tho that statement is being challenged this week ;-)
2nd point --- and this is just a personal feeling -- anyone who is just holding back that teeny bit of themselves - you know the statements 'maybe in a few years' 'maybe just one or two' 'maybe a glass of champagne at my daughter's wedding' 'maybe... maybe... maybe....' -- they are the people who discard AA completely -- and also people who hold onto the tiniest secret feeling of 'I wasn't that bad' -- I wasn't as bad as Jack down the road... I wasn't as bad as the bloke who became homeless... I wasn't as bad as the one's who drank in the morning --- of course those people will discard AA because AA can see through all of that -- and those people don't like being seen through.... as I always say -- just my opinion... but to get sober and stay sober we must must must not ever say 'I will do anything except.....' there must be NO except ---- if there is - we will fail

lecture over.

How is YS getting on? don't answer if you don't want to talk about it -- I'm sure you are sick to your back teeth of talking about it...

Howdy everyone else

[rustop59]

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Evening everyone

Thinking of the poor baba Molly, no wonder you are all so upset. Was he premature? Can’t remember when you said he was due. Enjoy Kildare village Mary. About the only shopping place himself is willing to go to. Aren’t you the lucky one that the 18 year old wanted to keep things low key, I’ve been through the drama of an 18th party or two.

You are becoming a social butterfly JC, great to read about it. It sometimes takes a few days to get a positive result Brit but fingers crossed that is not what it is. Hope you are coping Satz, it is so hard living with this but the worry of him homeless is also horrendous so you are caught between a rock and a hard place. One of these days it will stick, you have to hold onto that hope.

[mollyka]

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Hey Rusters...no he wasn't premature but she had to have a section so was induced on her due date...still waiting for word tonight.

I escaped parties with all my boys..none of them wanted fuss...Jilly on the other hand...God yeah! Okay...back to the waiting game...night all xx

[IamMary]

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Yep, watch this space with my girls, always a drama.

Hoping you get some good news tonight Molly. Wherever he ends up, he’ll get the best care.
[MENTION=22839]brit[/MENTION], if it is covid, day 1 is when you first had symptoms so youll be done and dusted in no time. Probably a cold.

Yes Rustop, kildare is about the only place MrM will tolerate. My sisters husband is the same.. speed shopping but we got sorted. Id happily burn most of the old rags now!

Hope all ok in yous [MENTION=9094]satz123[/MENTION]

[rustop59]

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Good morning everyone

Hope you got some good news Molly and that the little fella is improving, also hope for the same for you Satz. It never ends does it! Oh there is plenty of drama with girls Mary, don’t envy you that. Enjoy the time with your daughter Brit, it is lovely that she can travel again.

Beautiful morning here, looks frosty but it means we will have a bright sunny day. Time to get started in the garden.

[JackieClaire]

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Morning, up early as I'm off gallivanting again.
[MENTION=8529]mollyka[/MENTION]..........thinking of you and your family. :hug:
Glorious weather but its bitter cold.
Back in a longish bit.

[brit]

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Good morning Army! Covid positive and daughter arriving today. Timing is rubbish.