Total Abstinence (friends of Bill-W + Jimmy-K)

[Guest guest]

WOW you folks have been at it a loooong time, congrats!

I was clean and sober from May 28, 1987 - April 3, 1999

or for those of you doing the math, I fell off in the 11th

month of my 11th year ie just shy of turning twelve years.

 

Funny thing tho, I haven't desired a drink since I've begun

exploring the whole " raw food " dealio plus simultaneously

dropped ten pounds just in the past month, and all from just

reading you people's posts on this list just to see what may

start to at least infiltrate my psuedo brain during the times

I'm at the screen reading mail anyway...

 

Well okay, a little more than that too via actually following

along and making gradual changes according to the tidbits

I'm picking up from here already. It's been tremendously

informative so far, to say the least, right up to recent posts

on candida which I'd never even heard about before but, um,

certainly explains a few things too....

 

To wit, along with dietary changes, I'd started a colon cleanse

in capsule form week before last and after about a week, felt

like I was being attacked by an itch-weed, headachy and such.

Don't know if there's a real correlation but sure matches up.

 

On a final positive note, my sleep apnea is on an immediately

progressive decline in that I've finally begun to dream again

which means I'm able to stay asleep long enough to enter REM

sleep which has had a tremendous impact on my usual fatique

and level of energy during the day, as well, plus I've stopped

being plaqued by persistant colds and the like as if in a flinch.

 

And so for whatever other improvements this will ultimately

impact to my blood pressure, heart and other systems, well,

I'm only further encouraged and wish to extend my thanks

for planting such hopeful seeds in my life, yeah, I'm just

another old rock n' roller getting ready to turn 45 on my

next birthday (January) so maybe I'll get a vega-mix while

I'm already at it and reading about those here, too --- LOL.

 

Thanks again for everything.

And I mean literally.....

 

___

DK

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

At Mon, 27 Nov 2006 it looks like loulin3 composed:

 

> 29 years alcohol and drug free here.

>

> Louise

>

> rawfood , " SV " <shavig wrote:

> >

> > Hey Bill, are you a friend of Bill's? I've not had any alcohol for

> 19 years and 8 months.

> >

> > Shari V

 

Yes, I walked away from alcohol 17+ years ago but my confusion about

" total_abstinence " persisted for a few more years.

 

Friday, 11/24/2006 was my 12 year birthday, the only " real " birthday I can

truly count. But from being of Irish heritage and a native San

Franciscan (having survived the Haight-Ashbury and the 70's too) I will

never forget my last " cold-one " -- it didn't taste right for my stomach was

bleeding and I didn't know it! I just switched seats after that but

was still on the " Titanic " as they say...

 

That was on 2-21-1989

 

Oh, the reference to Jimmy-K is listed here:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Kinnon

 

--

" Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,

lying in hospitals dying of nothing. "

-- Redd Foxx

[Guest guest]

Kewl, I did not know about Jimmy K. Sounds like we're about the same age. I

too lived through the '70s. In fact I was living in SFO between '73 - '76

working as a flight attendant by day and by night........................I can

easily fit in either meeting on any given day.

 

Shari