Spad31
Previously, on Battlestar Galactica...
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Hi all! Been contemplating talking about this here for a while, and tonight just seems like a good time.
I drank heavily for 20+ years. Didn't realize the damage I was doing to myself. I'm talking full-blown functional alcoholic. Never arrested, DUI, job-loss, clearance loss, marriage breakup, etc. Any time day or night for any reason was a GREAT reason to drink.
About a year ago, I was hospitalized overnight for something or other and ended up staying almost a week.
Diagnosed with alcoholic liver disease.
Since then, things have gone from zero to sixty rapidly!
Hospitalized multiple times, cirrhosis is the outcome and I was in bad, bad shape.
I'm currently about to be placed on the Liver Transplant list (final meet with Surgeon Wednesday).
My MELD score is high enough for long enough now that I'm a priority candidate. Could be a day, a week a year...no one knows.
Bottom line:
I did this myself. No one to blame but me. I volunteered for several programs and asked for help. I got it.
I'm not embarrassed or ashamed. It is what it is. Family and friends have been unanimously supportive, and I have a great team of Med professionals helping.
I've been absolutely dry for:
0.28 years, 3.46 months, 106 days, 2,541 hours.
I feel better than I have in a looong time (medical considerations notwithstanding).
Sobriety is a wonderful, beautiful thing and I'll never have another drop.
I do volunteer work now at various programs to help others. I'm saving my own life; if I can help someone save theirs, then I've done my job.
I'm still weak, but color is back to great, appetite is back, getting stronger every day and have a newfound love of life and family. Wife, Son and I are doing great through this, even though the upcoming turmoil is stressful.
I will beat this with "the Gift of Life" and have another 40 years to look forward to!
If ANYONE out there wants to talk or needs guidance, support, etc, PM ME. I'll give you absolutely full contact info, meet with you, whatever. This is important! I struggled/denied for years in silent agony with a smile on my face. Never again!
I love being back here, I love the camaraderie, and I love my every-few days smoke.
Ya'll have a GREAT night and thanks for reading this far!
-Trey
I drank heavily for 20+ years. Didn't realize the damage I was doing to myself. I'm talking full-blown functional alcoholic. Never arrested, DUI, job-loss, clearance loss, marriage breakup, etc. Any time day or night for any reason was a GREAT reason to drink.
About a year ago, I was hospitalized overnight for something or other and ended up staying almost a week.
Diagnosed with alcoholic liver disease.
Since then, things have gone from zero to sixty rapidly!
Hospitalized multiple times, cirrhosis is the outcome and I was in bad, bad shape.
I'm currently about to be placed on the Liver Transplant list (final meet with Surgeon Wednesday).
My MELD score is high enough for long enough now that I'm a priority candidate. Could be a day, a week a year...no one knows.
Bottom line:
I did this myself. No one to blame but me. I volunteered for several programs and asked for help. I got it.
I'm not embarrassed or ashamed. It is what it is. Family and friends have been unanimously supportive, and I have a great team of Med professionals helping.
I've been absolutely dry for:
0.28 years, 3.46 months, 106 days, 2,541 hours.
I feel better than I have in a looong time (medical considerations notwithstanding).
Sobriety is a wonderful, beautiful thing and I'll never have another drop.
I do volunteer work now at various programs to help others. I'm saving my own life; if I can help someone save theirs, then I've done my job.
I'm still weak, but color is back to great, appetite is back, getting stronger every day and have a newfound love of life and family. Wife, Son and I are doing great through this, even though the upcoming turmoil is stressful.
I will beat this with "the Gift of Life" and have another 40 years to look forward to!
If ANYONE out there wants to talk or needs guidance, support, etc, PM ME. I'll give you absolutely full contact info, meet with you, whatever. This is important! I struggled/denied for years in silent agony with a smile on my face. Never again!
I love being back here, I love the camaraderie, and I love my every-few days smoke.
Ya'll have a GREAT night and thanks for reading this far!
-Trey