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that you did while drunk that if you think about it, it helps keep you from drinking?
Posted on 09/03/08, 10:09 pm
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Reply #1 - 09/03/08  10:36pm
" maybe for a day or two,the alcohol/addiction decides that question for me...sad,huh? "
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Reply #2 - 09/03/08  10:43pm
" Yeah getting stabbed in the gut by a white supremacist and im white lmao. Reply #1 no you decide to use, it don't. Don't think like a victim. "
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Reply #3 - 09/03/08  10:47pm
" filling the toilet twice with blood. not vomit and blood straight up blood then being diagnosed with alcoholic hepatitis "
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Reply #4 - 09/03/08  10:57pm
" Ah, what bittersweet memories this topic recalls! In 1988, near the end of my drinking, I decided that my problem was cheap, rotgut liquor, so I upgraded my consumer profile by splurging on a liter of 100 proof Wolfschmidt vodka. I chugged down about eight ounces of it and sat there feelng stark raving nothing at all. In a fury I looked at the back label to see if they had an 800 number so I could call the cheapskates up to complain that they'd diluted the product. They didn't have a number, of course, and my mood quickly shifted to despondent self-pity.

Should I jump out the window or call the suicide hotline? The choices and their likely consequences raced through my mind like lightning on a hot summer night-- oh wait, it was winter. Didn't anybody care any more, not even the distillers? Again I plunged into the raging debate between my ears over the only obvious choices I had left, to leap from the window or call the hotline.

Then it struck me. Suddenly, and as if miraculously, I was transported into a moment of startling clarity as I saw the situation in front of me in sharper focus.

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I was in a ground floor apartment and I didn't have a telephone. "
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Reply #5 - 09/03/08  11:00pm
" being drunk in the courtroom when i gave my baby girl to my mother to raise. the judge said "who would make a better parent?" and plastered though i was i had to say my mother. i won't ever, ever forget how empty my arms felt leaving court and the years since. "
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Reply #6 - 09/03/08  11:00pm
" being drunk in the courtroom when i gave my baby girl to my mother to raise. the judge said "who would make a better parent?" and plastered though i was i had to say my mother. i won't ever, ever forget how empty my arms felt leaving court and the years since. "
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Reply #7 - 09/03/08  11:26pm
" hey devon, i was there say at one time in first marraige...sucked.... "
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Reply #8 - 09/03/08  11:28pm
" p.s.i got them back cuz the wife killed him in a fire...... "
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Reply #9 - 09/03/08  11:58pm
" it's theones iCAN"t remember that scare me lol "
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Reply #10 - 09/04/08  12:25am
" Yep, I wrote about it in my journal. 68 days ago I woke up in my bed, felt fine (had my usual 2 magnums of pinot grigio the night before) I never got hungover so I hopped up to go get ready to get ready for the day and wentto take a shower. My forehead was split open, my right eye swollen shut like Rocky Balboa and 10x12 bruises and cuts all over my right side. Apparently, I had blacked out and fell somewhere in my house. never found out where.

I took a picture of myself and I keep copies of it all over my house and taped on the back of my wallet in case I try to go buy alcohol, I will see that picture.

What I think about is how many times I bet I blacked out but didnt get injured. I shudder to imagine it, except that I DO know that I never drove after drinking. Heaven knows what I DID do, and if it were not for that face and those bruises, I might still be drinking.

Liz "
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