Wow, this past year flew by for sure, and that is fine by me for the most part, though it makes it feel as though my little one is growing up way to fast, he is going to be 11 this month, WOW, it only seemed like yesterday he was 11 months sometimes.
The new year also marks another year that I made it through and stayed clean, so now its up to 9.5 yrs since my last slip, which happened when my son was about 11 months old. That was before my wife understood my addiction and what it was about. She learned exactly what it was about the day I slipped last, it was right after my second knee surgery and the doc was kind enough to give me meds I didn't want, I told my wife to flush them, but she insisted that I take one for the pain, of course like the good addict I am I gave in finally, and 8 hours later when she got home I had consumed the whole bottle of 30 pills, while my son was home with me, that was a big wake up call, and since then I have been clean. And since then my wife has understood my addiction.
I worry that eventually I will have to stop using alcohol containing products as well, and probably should since alcoholism runs in my family as well, but of course its one of those things that I never got off on I could take it or leave it, but could never leave my bottle of pain pills for anything or anyone for that matter.
But its a new year, another year to keep clean and keep having life get better.
The new year also marks another year that I made it through and stayed clean, so now its up to 9.5 yrs since my last slip, which happened when my son was about 11 months old. That was before my wife understood my addiction and what it was about. She learned exactly what it was about the day I slipped last, it was right after my second knee surgery and the doc was kind enough to give me meds I didn't want, I told my wife to flush them, but she insisted that I take one for the pain, of course like the good addict I am I gave in finally, and 8 hours later when she got home I had consumed the whole bottle of 30 pills, while my son was home with me, that was a big wake up call, and since then I have been clean. And since then my wife has understood my addiction.
I worry that eventually I will have to stop using alcohol containing products as well, and probably should since alcoholism runs in my family as well, but of course its one of those things that I never got off on I could take it or leave it, but could never leave my bottle of pain pills for anything or anyone for that matter.
But its a new year, another year to keep clean and keep having life get better.