Posted by:
shannon
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Date: August 10, 2014 05:45PM
I KNOW I'm talking to the wrong crowd here. Most of you guys have been sober your entire lives due to the word of wisdom. But I have just experienced the worst brain-nightmare of my life.
I was a convert to the church, on the heels of a wild sorority party life in college. At the very, very young age of 20, I had my first blackout following a crazy dorm party. I went to the campus counseling department and told them I thought I was an alchoholic. The counselor said I was too young to be one.
Pfffffffffffffffft.
I operated on that assumption the rest of my life.
When I joined the church, I dutifully kept the word of wisdom and stayed sober for 17 years. When we left I started drinking again. It's been a few years now and my intake has steadily accelerated.
In an attempt to stop, I took the drug Antabuse this summer - a pill that makes you violently ill if you drink. My last beer was June 24.
Two nights ago, I experienced the most horrific withdrawals (1 1/2 months after the fact - is that even possible????????!!!!) Shakes that felt like convulsions, wild hallucinations . . . my small son had to call 911 in the middle of the night and I was whisked away by ambulance and admitted to the hospital.
WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO WHO has ever gone through this before? Damn, that's one thing the Mormons got right - no drinking.
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