Nearly there

[megandb]

:PToday is Thursday May 15 2014 and it is a good day. Today marks my 11 months sober mark As the one person in the meetings always says on AA bdays "Its a great start" and it is. I have come a very long ways sense my first time passing through the doors of an AA meeting, the scared overwhelmed person I was then is still with me but she is not as scared and is starting to understand what this horrible thing called alcoholism did to her. I know now that I will always be in recovery but the hardest times are behind me and I can deal with other issues properly and all I have to do is to NOT drink. Not doing something, hummm sounds easy right. I am the queen of not doing things, I made it through high school not doing things (homework, chores etc) well never in my life has it been so hard to NOT do something. However everyday I know I can get through it and not drink because of my higher power, AA, and my friends.

How am I going to celebrate today? Im going to celebrate by going to an AA meeting and drinking lots of coffee (they are mean there, they wont let our coffee cups run dry lol) then I am going to keep on NOT drinking for another 24 hours

Thanks

Megan Jessica

[VickySGV]

Way to go there babe!!! WAY TO GO!!! You are through the worst of the beginning, but it is still part of a beginning that will last us for the rest of our lives if we follow the path. You have been through a lot this 11/12 of a year, and you have grown in so many ways. Wonderful!!

[gennee]

Congratulations on your eleven months of sobriety. Each day that passes is another victory.

[Guest Jennifer T]

Congrats, Megan. Very cool.

[Guest]

Way to go Megan!

Congratulations on 11 months of 24hours of sobriety.

Huggs,

Joann

[Guest Isabel1991]

Congrats Megan I've got around 3 months myself and hearing(reading)this has really given me some strength to not drink and not use (just for today) so thank you for sharing your experience strength and hope with me

Love Isabel

[Charlize]

Thank you for sharing Megan. 11 Months is awesome. I know i never thought i could quit and as the months of sobriety passed at some point i gained the conscious to realize that the physical need had been lifted. Like you i'll always be an alcoholic but if i don't drink and keep attending meetings i'll just keep growing. If i drink i'll die.

i'm so glad you are part of this miracle.

Hugs,

Charlize

[Michelle 2010]

You are an inspiration to others Megan. When I had 11 days it was important for me to see people get eleven months. It gave me hope that I could do it too :-)

Thanks for posting.

Michelle

[Guest DanielleH]

Congratulations on 11 months, lol, for me that seems like an eternity. I'm fairly new to this whole sober living thing (110 days), and can already see lots of changes in myself as well. I can relate to everything you said about fear and being the queen of not doing things. Congratulations again on 11 months.

[Guest Carla_Davis]

Congratulations Megan on 11 months Sober.

I am already looking forward to your June 15th post about 1 year clean and sober with AA.

Thankfully, I never abused alcohol or drugs.

Keep up the good work.

I know it may not always be easy, but I know that you are strong.

" I am Woman, I am Strong" Hellen Reddy

Hugs,

Carla

[Guest denise_w]

Wonderful Megan...11 months...just proves that the ideas of "just for today" or "one day at a time" work...I know it does for this alcoholic...I just kept adding up all those days and before I knew it I had 11 months, and now I'm at 20 months...and with the help of my Higher Power (and the power of the AA fellowship), at the end of July I'll have 2 years.

As long as I don't drink. And how do I do that? By the power of my Higher Power working through such marvelously supportive peers such as yourself, and so many other wonderful transwomen that have responded to my cries for help in my more woesome forum posts. I think we're all in this together, so it behooves us to be there for each other.

And if I do drink? I'll lose my sobriety, I'll give up on my transition, and I'll end up some horrid genderless freak-drunk face down unconscious in some dive bar...condemned to a lonely, miserable, empty, and meaningless alcoholic death.

11 months? Wonderful...next month makes a year, then 2 years, 3 years, and so on!

Keep on keepin' on!

Your friend and fellow AA,

Denise