--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 231 RECOVERY Ref: EAZ00000 Date: 06/28/97 From: MARIE WEIDEMANN Time: 12:22pm \/To: RICK BALDWIN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Sponsorees Rick Baldwin - The wind whispered your name to me... M> Ciauo! See you on Interfaith as agreed. > . > Is it as hot where you are as here? No wonder fido is slow - nobody > wants to sit and bake by their computers when they can go to the beach. > I wonder why? (GRIN) RB> Makes me want to move to the mountains...any mountains, RB> anywhere...where it is cooler and the humidity is a tad less than 98%. I can relate...the weather here has been very warm but today the humidity is very pleasant..and am I glad..I don't mind the heat but I have problems with the humidity...and where I live in Pa..I *am* in the mountains.. Light, Love and Laughter Marie - Starwitch ... Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Phoenix Rising*Wilkes-Barre PA*Starwitch (717)822-2017 (1:268/442) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 231 RECOVERY Ref: EAZ00001 Date: 06/29/97 From: MARIE WEIDEMANN Time: 12:49am \/To: MATRIKA (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Sponsorees Matrika - The wind whispered your name to me... Ma> Human? Yeah, but that's the last thing I want to be - I'd rather be a Ma> Vulcan thank you very much. Get rid of these sloppy emotions, if you Ma> ask me. (GRIN) Ahhh ... but remember, sometimes emotions snuck in on the Vulcans too.. Just look at Spock's reactions from time to time..pure human... Light, Love and Laughter Marie - Starwitch ... Much seriousness is required to achieve the frivolous. -Chanel ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Phoenix Rising*Wilkes-Barre PA*Starwitch (717)822-2017 (1:268/442) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 231 RECOVERY Ref: EAZ00002 Date: 06/28/97 From: MICHAEL KASZETA Time: 10:37pm \/To: MARIE WEIDEMANN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Welcome Sorry it took so long to write back. I have a hectic full life. Funny it wasn't always that way. I remember one of the scariest parts of entering recovery was what to do with my time! Now 2 and a half years later I wish I could have bottled that time. One thing that fills my schedule is a recovery activity we have in the northern Delaware area. It's a hiking club called Footprints. Catchy name uh? We hike in Pennsylvannia, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and this july 4th we will be in W. Virginia at Harpers Ferry. I got involved with this group very early in my recovery and it was a present from my HP. Within six months of recovery i had three heart attacks and open heart surgery (triple bypass). Thanks to the health that I had regained from the exercise and the support of my Fellows I was back to work in a month. Only missed one hike that year! And that was because I was in intensive care and couldn't get the Doctors approval Sitting hear and remembering then, I can see how far I've come. Besides keeping it green, I find I need to see that it's working sometimes so that I can keep going. I know the journey never ends but I have so far to go it gets discouraging sometimes. Right now I still have a lot of cleaning to do from my past and I wonder when it will let up. I keep reminding myself that HP wouldn't put it on my plate if I couldn't or shouldn't eat it! Like the lesson I got from my heart attacks says; An EKG is flat line when your dead, up and down shows life! Thank HP for that life. I was reading another message on here that spoke of that relationship with GOD and how important it is to recovery. I mildly disagree, It's ESSENTIAL to recovery! I stayed clean for 12 years in Mikes program and went back out. Only since I followed the direction given me by my HP and started his program am I getting clean and sober! Bless you for another outlet to 12th step! Peace and Serenity Mike Take the steps, The elevators Broken God, Grant me patience, RIGHT NOW! --- Maximus 2.02 * Origin: DelaMarPenn MicroNet -+- Newark, Delaware (1:150/115) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 231 RECOVERY Ref: EB100000 Date: 06/30/97 From: GAZOO Time: 04:59am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Fighting the Good fight ... Hi Everyone I had thougth that the Temptations to drink would be worst once I've moved into my own appartment. But it turns out that not much has changed. What a relief... :-) I get my moments but I deal with them just by fixing my mind on something ells... Anything at all really... Just as long as it has nothing to do with cheap highs. However to tell you the truth... I've come damn close to throwing myself of the wagon and into harms-way. Strange how the most simple of things can make you fill good. I'm talking about things we all take for granted in are busy lifes until we stop and questions areselfs. Erlyer today I was having one of those little moments in the sun. You know, the one that says to yea; It's a beautiful day, why don't you have one??? One being a never ending cold class of Beer. Well the point is... I watered my sisters lawn and walked away felling refresh and victories... Strange little thing this life! All made up to look so overbearing. That is until you stop and look at the simple things that ake it possible. By no means do I have it solved. In fact, I'm troublingly sure to fall. Seeing that it's just one of those little things that make life so interresting. And interresting it is, Isn't it??? I'll be looking for your words of incouragement. Don't hold backon me. I'll need all the help I can get... And I know that having this Echo on my Board can solved those dark and cunfusing times ahead. so again. Don't hold out on me folks... I'm looking for your support on this one. You can make a deffrence in someones life... Even by the little things you do! :-) heheeh... God Bless ! And May God's Love Be With You All ! GazOo --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: StarGate B.B.S. (1:163/403.2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 231 RECOVERY Ref: EB100001 Date: 06/30/97 From: MARIE WEIDEMANN Time: 12:46am \/To: STATELINER (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: First things first Stateliner - The wind whispered your name to me... MW> Ah...well, I am not that big of a football fan so that is why I was not MW> aware of the location...I watch it once in awhile, but I much prefer to MW> watch baseball...:) St> I used to be a big Phillies fan.. I still followed them but waiting St> for the franshise here in Az to play next season.. I like the Phillies but, at heart, I am still a Yankee fan...have been for years...:) MW> I am glad to hear that..These programs are so very helpful to people.. MW> they give them a chance to get the help they need, no matter what the MW> problem is...it just takes the effort to get to a meeting.. MW> St> Yeah I have a webpage and I have many links to recovery webpages. I St> was suprised by the # of recovery pages out there.. The Al-anon world St> service office is now running there own page, and they have some of St> the pamblets and the forum on it... I have copied down you web address and will try to give it a look see.. I was not aware that Al-anon had it's own page..do you have that address? I would appreciate it...I could pass it on to others.. St> Yes I keep coming back.. Glad to hear it...:) I would hate to be in here all by myself...:) Light, Love and Laughter Marie - Starwitch ... Walk in Balance, Peace and Harmony with ALL OUR RELATIONS... ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Phoenix Rising*Wilkes-Barre PA*Starwitch (717)822-2017 (1:268/442) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 231 RECOVERY Ref: EBC00000 Date: 07/07/97 From: CHERLYN YOUENS Time: 12:06am \/To: EDWARD SCOTT (Read 0 times) Subj: 10 yrs congraduations on your 10 years sober --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Tarkin's Rift (1:106/6) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 231 RECOVERY Ref: EBC00001 Date: 07/07/97 From: CHERLYN YOUENS Time: 12:16am \/To: ROMANE W. LAND (Read 0 times) Subj: NICE TO CHAT I like to chat too. congraduations again on your 18 years that you have now I';m remembering Ernie B. He sobered up on July 4, 1974 and died sober. I don';t see how anyone could sober up july 4 or new years eve they're one of the few days I'd like to drink. I'm an alanon so it's no big deal whether I drink or not. I usually have 1 drink per month. My hubby Phil had a sip of mine for 9 years. He died 1/29/94 (nonalcholic) perhaps we can chat again later. --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Tarkin's Rift (1:106/6) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 231 RECOVERY Ref: EBC00002 Date: 07/07/97 From: CHERLYN YOUENS Time: 12:23am \/To: RICK BALDWIN (Read 0 times) Subj: Hello glad to see you're sober 3 weeks one day at a time in 18 years you will have 18 years sober like romane just "don't drink and don't die" --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Tarkin's Rift (1:106/6) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 231 RECOVERY Ref: EBC00003 Date: 07/06/97 From: STATELINER Time: 07:46pm \/To: MARIE WEIDEMANN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: First things first MW> St> I used to be a big Phillies fan.. I still followed them but waiting MW> St> for the franshise here in Az to play next season.. MW> MW> I like the Phillies but, at heart, I am still a Yankee fan...have been MW> for years...:) Just watch them play the Cubs today.. The Phillies are the worse team in baseball this season, replacing the Cubs heheh.. At least the Yankees have a good team. I don't follow baseball like I use too. Maybe when the franchise here starts next season I will get into it a bit more.. MW> I have copied down you web address and will try to give it a look see.. MW> I was not aware that Al-anon had it's own page..do you have that ddress? MW> I would appreciate it...I could pass it on to others.. I have a link on my page to the Al-anon offical web site.. I don't remember t just now.. If you don't reach my page for some reason let me know and I will get it for you. MW> St> Yes I keep coming back.. MW> MW> Glad to hear it...:) I would hate to be in here all by myself...:) Yes it can get lonely in here at times.. Everyone is on the internet.. :-) Hope you 4 of July went well.. Ours was better then most yrs.. Went bowling with our neighbor friends and then had a cookout with them. Catch you next time.. state@juno.com special@futureone.com http://www.futureone.com/~special --- GEcho 1.20/Pro * Origin: |14Acme Cafe BBS! (602)838-0712 (1:114/508) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 231 RECOVERY Ref: EBC00004 Date: 07/07/97 From: MARIE WEIDEMANN Time: 12:26am \/To: GAZOO (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Dry Land Mate!!! Gazoo - The wind whispered your name to me... Ga> Yesterday was my worst day yet... The hold *Fn* Day was one temptation Ga> after another. There's no way I'm re-playing that day over again. Ga> I'll ether drink myself into a slumber or hate alcohol so, so that the Ga> thought of it makes me sick! But you got through it...that is the important thing..no matter how hard it was, you got through it..wonderful... Ga> My sister has given me allot of support and I don't want to let her Ga> down in anyway... But I fear that she may be the only reasson why I've Ga> made it throught yerterday. (Not a good sign!!!) I've just called her Ga> to push us into doing something togetter today. I am glad your sister is there for you.. Ga> I don't have anyother reason to write you but that I need to hear from Ga> others. Words don't come without there own power... And at this point, Ga> I'm running out of power. Hearing from others will in-power me and give Ga> a sence of belonging. In short... I need some support! Do you have any AA groups near you?..or can you find the number in the phone book to just call and talk to someone..just the fact that there are others near you that have the same problem may be of help to you.. Perhaps you could get to a meeting..The people there are the same as the people on this echo, except they are close to where you live..This is only a suggestion, of course..but it could help with support.. Ga> I don't know what I want you to say... And I'm sure that If I did, I Ga> would tell myself those exact words. So I guess I just want to talk Ga> with someone who has made it throught the front gates as it we're... Ga> Tell me about yourself... ;-) Hmm..where to start..I have been hanging around with AA people for over 15 years..my late husband was a member of AA for just about 7 years before he died...sober... My mother was an alcoholic. She died still drinking.. my brother is in AA..I have one son that has a drinking problem..and one that has a drug problem...so...I have had experience with both the active drinker and the sober AA member..I don't have a drinking or drug problem, but that just luck..I have been a sponcer, am a member of a support group for both AA and CoDA..I do some counseling..and work with SIA people.. I am a mother and a grandmother...I am also the moderator of this echo.. Soooo...now you know a bit about me..I can only offer you advice but others here on this echo have been through the same things you are going through now...they can give you the real stories..and what they went through to get where they are now...I do know one thing..they had to work hard and fight days like you describe above to stay sober..but it can be done..because many here have done it.. We are all here to help when someone reaches out... Light, Love and Laughter Marie - Starwitch ... Its hard to remember when you don't know you are forgetting. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: Phoenix Rising*Wilkes-Barre PA*Starwitch (717)822-2017 (1:268/442)