View Full Version : 10 Years Sober!
ChadKnowsLaw
02-22-2009, 08:02 AM
It has now been 10 years since I was arrested for drunk driving (the 4th time) and finally checked myself into an alcohol addiction treatment center.
I was a FUCKING MESS. I drank to the point of blackout 4 or 5 times a week. I was drinking over 24 beers a day. I was drinking in the morning and even installed a new shower stall with a shelf so I could have a place to put my morning cocktail while I showered.
A very public and very humiliating arrest gave me that last kick in the ass I needed to get myself to a rehab center. I went through DT's for 4 days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens
One of the other patients died during my second week. I did not want to be that guy.
It has taken a lot of hard work. There have been some really shitty times and times I really wanted to take a drink and times I really wanted to just get drunk. Thankfully, there have been a lot of great times and good memories over the past 10 years and getting sober changed my life.
UglyO'Bear
02-22-2009, 08:14 AM
Major Congrats! What an achievement!!! :cool:
MiamiBoyz
02-22-2009, 08:30 AM
Congratulation on that amazing accomplishment!
Thanks for sharing your story and inspiring others!
gaydemon_jr
02-22-2009, 08:31 AM
Congratulations. It can't have been easy!
Badpuppy Lisa
02-22-2009, 08:53 AM
A huge, huge congrat's Chad! This day is certainly one to celebrate and continue to celebrate each and every day. Your strength and determination has brought you to this milestone. Thanks for sharing this time in your life with all of us and as MiamiBoyz said, you are truly an inspiration. xox
Congratz and hugs to Chad!
10 years sober is an amazing accomplishment after reading your story. I wish you all the best on another 10 years.
marcjacob
02-22-2009, 08:58 AM
Thats a real achievment. Congrat to you (hugs).
dannyz
02-22-2009, 09:03 AM
It's an amazing achievement, especially when you look at how much you've accomplished in the past 10 years and think about the fact you probably couldn't have done any of it, and possibly may not even still be alive, if you didn't stop when you did. Congrats and all my best wishes to you buddy! :)
Squirt
02-22-2009, 09:07 AM
You rock Chad! Here's a big hug and kiss on the cheek for you ;)
Thanks for sharing this part of your life with us over the years, ikt's a great reminder of how fragile we are as human beings and how destructive addiction can be.
dzinerbear
02-22-2009, 10:03 AM
Thanks for sharing your experience, strength, and hope.
What an amazing achievement.
Cheers,
Michael
MatthewVieques
02-22-2009, 10:07 AM
Congratulations Chad on your milestone and anniversary. Its a lot to be proud of. Thanks for sharing!
tigermom
02-22-2009, 10:13 AM
Adding my congratulations! This is absolutely awesome - you should be very proud of yourself! I never even knew it was possible to drink so much - 24 beers a day??? how can someone drink so much liquid?
Gaystoryman
02-22-2009, 10:20 AM
Adding my congrats too, way to go Chad, and here's to continued success for you. :cool:
That is such an awesome personal achievement Chad! Congratulations!
basschick
02-22-2009, 11:06 AM
congrats to you chad - you done good!
Adam Mason
02-22-2009, 11:25 AM
Well done Chad... just keep on going!
HunkMoneyLuke
02-22-2009, 01:20 PM
adding another big congrats to you, Chad!
gaydemon
02-22-2009, 01:22 PM
Thats amazing thing to have accomplished!
kevinblj
02-22-2009, 01:38 PM
Chad,
Congratulations. You are amazing one day at a time.
Kevin
It'll be a few more years yet till it hits 10 years since I last did meth.
Congrats guy.
Wow - correction, it'll be this year, for me.
Amazing how fast ten years go by.
camcruise
02-22-2009, 04:50 PM
Chad, I am so proud of you. Our world would have been a lesser place if you had not been in it.
Better that you replaced it with hot sex instead.
Keep it up handsome.
Cam
ChadKnowsLaw
02-22-2009, 05:14 PM
Adding my congratulations! This is absolutely awesome - you should be very proud of yourself! I never even knew it was possible to drink so much - 24 beers a day??? how can someone drink so much liquid?
Drink early, drink often.
Then learn how to vomit as casually as urinating so it is possible to keep drinking. Really hard nights I would throw up 2 or 3 times in the bar bathroom but would go right back to the bar for more. Then get a 6 pack take-out in case I was not ready to sleep. I have pissed in my pants without even knowing it, vomited in my sleep, and experienced really hard binges where I have no memory of Friday night through Sunday morning. Those weekends the bar tabs and carbonless check copies helped to piece things together. I had a flabby neck and a swollen liver. I could not go a day without a drink or my hands would start to shake! I knew that it only takes a few drinks to make those shakes go away -- it was kind of embarrassing trying to hold a cigarette and hands trembling so bad I just had to hold it over the ashtray instead of flick ashes. Once I got my blood-alcohol level up the shakes would go away. What other people call "drunk" was my normal.
But that was now a decade ago~
Craig
02-22-2009, 11:28 PM
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HAPPY X
BabyMaker
02-23-2009, 01:48 AM
Congrats! Chad! I am proud of you! :) That is hard 10 years! Most I hit was 1 full year without anything, but i am nothing like I was back in 2000 or so.
Congrats again :D!
fantastvik
02-23-2009, 03:30 AM
hey chad! congrats for completing 10 years! thatz simply amazing!
Teddy
02-23-2009, 06:59 AM
Congratulations!
You really are an inspiration.
AnthonyDeAngelo
02-23-2009, 08:26 AM
Congrats man! That's terrific!
Best Attorney in a sober role - wow!
And you probably didn't think (way back then) that 10 minutes much less 10 years was possible...