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Help with alcoholism and addiction

Dave, how did you kick the sauce? I’m pretty sure I drink too much.

I hit the real bottom. House, family, friends and work gone, and in ICU with congestive heart failure. The doctors and nurses said goodbye.

I managed to crawl away and re-right myself over the years by none less than God’s grace. Sober eyes and mind see and think differently, clearly and painfully. I was sick to death, you’re just a little under the weather.

Read, jog, train, clean house, find a productive diversion, recognize the weakness and worthlessness and commonness and cheapness of the booze habit and put it away — before it puts you away, and it will in time — very insidious, the Devil in a mug or six-pack.

Here’s one for the record books: Jesus Saves… read the Bible, live, learn and grow.

Go… Godspeed… Dave (I ain’t no alter boy)

Dave Draper - Dave Draper Posted on April 1st, 2008 in Rehab Efforts by Dave Draper