Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
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Officially over two weeks sober! My friend I met here (ironically) is sobering up too, keep up the good work fren, you know who you are. Anyway she calls me up to congratulate me and asked what prompted me to quit and I told her the full story and she suggested I share. DO NOT READ BEYOND THIS POINT IF YOU ARE GROSSED OUT EASILY.
Couple weeks ago I was sick and getting sicker, had lost enough weight even my friends IRL are commenting. I assume it's something alcohol related and I DT 48 hours and still have stomach issues, insomnia, sore throat, loss of appetite, bowl issues... I start hallucinating, dizzy, exhausted but can't sleep and my ass won't quit itching. I have a breakdown and I'm sitting on the edge of town in my truck wondering what the hell is going on with me.
I feel this loogy in my throat that keeps coming back up no matter how much I swallow and eventually end up vomiting non-stop for a while. The loogy crawled out, nasty looking worm, clear thing with tentacles. I start driving to the hospital sleep deprived and grossed out by the most disgusting thing I've ever had in my body. Stop, violently puke up another one. Make it to the ER bloodshot eyes, puke up another tiny one in the waiting room.
The entire staff treats me like a junkie, mocking me about the imaginary worms. EKG, heart monitor, IV, UA, blood test as I keep telling them I have parasites. Hour or so later I hear them in the hallway mumbling in amazement that my blood and urine came back clean and I really wasn't on any drugs. They start taking me a little more seriously but leave me there alone for several hours. In that amount of time I not only diagnosed my myself figuring out I had Pin Worms but also but Ivermectin will kill the adults.
Pissed off I ripped out my IV, yanked off the EKG crap got dressed and drove to Tractor Supply, bought the horse paste. I was pooping strange and already feeling a bit better before anyone called from the hospital. I'm sober AND parasite free now and feeling better each day. Slept for 36 hours straight. F*** our judgemental worthless greedy medical system.
Good for you!
That'll get you sober!
But in all seriousness wow. I don't even know what to say. Glad you have a pede fren here to lean on, but it feels like IRL AA might help you quite a bit. I get the feeling that at the very least you'd find some people who could sympathize with your ER experience which, yeah, I've been there. Traumatic.
God Bless brother.
I've been going to AA. Found a really cool small group that even let's me take my dog, he's becoming pretty popular around the club. We go almostvevery evening.
Keep up the good work and keep your eyes on Jesus he will help you make your paths straight.
Woo hoo! Good for you, you are a hero! You completely cured yourself. At some point the medical system is going to be obsolete 🇺🇸🙏🏻🥳
Groovy , your over the hard part, first 3 days. Keep on keeping on fren, pray that God gives you extra strength.