I'm so sorry to hear your news, Bri. 3 pints is a LOT. I used to drink 2 pints and that would keep me pretty snockered. Drinking to that degree is very spooky. The trouble with alcohol is that you'll drink when things are bad, you'll drink when things are great, you'll drink because the sun came up this morning. I've drank for all those reasons and many more.

I forget if you go to AA. They have helped me tremendously.

Please take care of yourself and concentrate on the next sober 24 hours - just one foot in front of the other.

I hope you didn't end up with some lasting legal problem. No DUI or anything? :(

"Barefoot In The Park"

Yay!

That line never fails to crack me up.

Mildred Natwick is one of my all-time favorite character actresses.

:)

She hasn't logged in since the morning of the 14th -- does anyone know if she's doing okay?

I'm worried about her. Three pints a day is such desperation, end of the road drinking. It is very hard to come back down from that amount of alcohol, too. Sometimes a person needs to go into detox for a day or two.

Bri seems like a scrapper, though. Hopefully, we'll be reading her posts here again soon.

hey, thanks, you guys. I'm here and I'm doing better. My brain in coming back online (not entirely all there - but better) meetings, sponsor, book work, all that. everyday. EVERYday.

I did go to the hospital. If you really want to know, I'll tell you what they did - but you can probably guess. People like me are treated worse than an animal.

wolf, I'm sure, has thoughts on this topic.

Still - we ARE human. I know we are trying and a bother and GOMERs- all that. I didn't like working with people like me when I was a nurse. Karma.

the thing is - health care staff are so burned out right now & it's only going to get much, MUCH worse. Compassion? You'll have to pay for that.

Glad you're working it through, Bri. I like you and I worry about you.

Pleased to hear you're taking some positive steps, Bri. Yeah, medical staff can be so ignorant and downright hurtful when it comes to dealing with us alkies. The AMA classified alcoholism as a DISEASE years and years ago, but try and get some doctors and nurses to cop to that. I guess they were back doing the nasty with the cadavers on the day the alcoholism lecture was given.

If you ever need support, feel free to PM me. We're walking down the same road.

I used to see that kind of attitude a lot on the education programme I worked at. Some of the students had drugs or alcohol problems. If one of them dropped off the radar for a spell and then reappeared having put themselves through god knows what, there were a couple of tutors who seemed to go out of their way to make them feel bad about it.

Aside from the fact that it is probably the least helpful thing anyone can do, it was often as not accompanied by total hypocrisy: these same tutors would be down in the smoking room with a patch on their arm and a cig in their hand complaining that they just couldn't give up.

I'm a nicoteine addict. It killed my dad it may well kill me. It is a matter of luck and grace that I just happened to fall into an addiction that society deems relatively acceptable, and just as much a matter of luck and grace that i didn't fall into an addiction that is judged harshly.

There but for the grace of fate go we.

Dana - thank you.