Beware of Alcohol

Oct 24, 2009

Trust me if you have any inclinations towards thinking that you don't drink like others do then be especially aware of the dangers of alcohol post op.  I've been pulled over and got a DWI - not a pretty picture - I was so blacked out that I don't even remember getting pulled over and put in the cop car.  Snapped t in the jail when they were trying to do the breathalyser - I stupidly refused and ended up losing my drivers license, got one year probation, and have to pay monthy fines for three years to the State of Texas.  I had never been in trouble before (just lucky) but this is what it took for me to go really off the deep end and I ended up violating probation and ended up in a state mandated rehab residential program for three months.  This was in August 2007 and I'm just now getting ready to celebrate one year of sobriety.  I becamse the type of alcoholic that I thought I would never become - hiding the liquor, putting my children in the position of being a parent, and almost lost my family and job in the process.

I'm blessed that I didn't kill anyone and had several minor fender benders before I finally got caught.  I now know that I am a textbook alcoholic and that drinking and WLS for sure don't mix.  It takes nothing to get me drunk and I ended up giving up on myself and really crawled into the bottle during the year that I was on probation.  Ended up in jail for two weekends, paying out the ass for fines, lawyers, breathalyzer on the car, and suffered at work.  Not to mention the toll that it took on my relationship with my kids and parents.

Somehow I've kept my job and things are returning to normal.  Only by the grace of God. 

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