[mydogmuppet]

I found that work and relationships interfered with my professional drinking career. I didn't really have to worry as alcohol removed both of these impediments. It took many months before I was given insight. A moment of clarity. I am a CPA and various PG degrees. I could not execute cursive writing or read more than two sentences at the end of my drinking career. My first job in sobriety was painting white lines on roads, marking out carparks and asphalting (hard). I found all those tasks challenged me to my then limits. Many years later I reflect that all, yes all, of my life's difficulties in those dark days were rooted in my addiction to alcohol. I stopped drinking, ten minutes, one hour, one day at a time. All my birth family have died of alcohol related causes, asphyxiation on own vomit, alcoholic cardio myopathy, untreated perforated ulcer with sepsis. I don't have to prove them right.