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K/E Greg Pearl
Gosh guys... I'm lost here. I can't find the regular site we all have been on. Are you guys, K/E, Greg, Precious out there? I can't find our forum!
Pearl:
Its a hundred times easier when you keep your mind busy! You wont go throught the huge withdrawl like before, so buck up and stay busy and youll be fine!
Ill be thinking about you so know that someone is throwing some "posative heat" at ya.
Its a hundred times easier when you keep your mind busy! You wont go throught the huge withdrawl like before, so buck up and stay busy and youll be fine!
Ill be thinking about you so know that someone is throwing some "posative heat" at ya.
WOW THANKS I NEEDED THAT speech. YOU are right. My hubby NEEDS me now and I need to get back off these drugs. I KNEW I could depend on this site to help me. I will try tomorrow to STOP again C/T ...Lots going on this week...so I won't be able to lie in bed like the first time. So, Greg, it took you more than once to "kick" the habit? Hey, I am a sports fan, too, so can relate to the your "life throwing me curve balls" comments. I LOVE IT....You are SO right. He's been laid off before and the economy IS awful right now but we'll survive...Always have. Please keep your uplifting posts coming. I need all the help I can get right now. :) Thanks again ...Precious
Precious Pearl:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
Dont feel like your starting all over again. You have come such a long way and every journey has a few detours!
Having a loved one lose a job is a very trunatic expereance and its especially bad to have to watch a loved one go through it. We all fall down in life Pearl, but the strongest of us dont stay down, we get up and keep forging ahaid! Take if from someone who has fallen down plenty of times.
The only thing you lose if you fall down is a day of being clean, not your dignity, not your self respect! If you chose to buckle and give in, than you lose those things, but if you fall down, get your *** back up on the horse and keep riding!
This is your biggest test and you need to see it thourgh. have lost my job 4 times in the last 4 years due to lay offs and the bad econemy and it really plays games with my head. It makes me feel worthles and makes me feel physically sick. You never get used to it. My family got me though it with their love and support.
Give your hubby some of that love and support by respect him enough to focus your energy on his needs, not the need to get high to escape the stress. I mean that in the most loving way, not to be judgmental. If your man is anything like me, hes feeling a little hurt and scared right now. He needs you more than you need Vicodin right now. Focus on that and consider your fall from recovery a painfull day where you could not take the pain any more. The newness of this tramatic situation can be the begining of your new adventure or the begin of your spiral down back into the hell of addiction. Dont commemorate the day your man lost his job by becoming an addict again Pearl. Make it the day you looked death in the face looked away for a second, than looked back with a smile and laughed!
Life throws us all curve balls and sometimes we get hit with them. When life throws you a curve ball, and it hits you, drop the bat and run out to the mound and kick the $HIT our of it! Dont hit yourself with the bat! Your husband got hit by the crurveball of a crapy econemy and lost his job, hes going to go find a new one. You got hit by Vicodin again. What are you going to do, sit down at the plate and eat dirt?
Your going to be fine Pearl, just pick up the bat and get back at the plate. If life hits you again, run out there and fix it! Dont quit the game, you have come too far. Its not starting all over, we all get do overs in life. Dont kick yourself, dont be depressed, dont give it a second thought, just get back at the plate and get ready to hit the ball Pearl. If anyone has an excuse, its you, but now you have used the excuse and its time to move on to help your Ol man.
FYI to King and Breaking free, I watch this site every day, I have not forgotton about you all. I have had some battles of my own to grind out over here too. I hope everyone is well!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
Dont feel like your starting all over again. You have come such a long way and every journey has a few detours!
Having a loved one lose a job is a very trunatic expereance and its especially bad to have to watch a loved one go through it. We all fall down in life Pearl, but the strongest of us dont stay down, we get up and keep forging ahaid! Take if from someone who has fallen down plenty of times.
The only thing you lose if you fall down is a day of being clean, not your dignity, not your self respect! If you chose to buckle and give in, than you lose those things, but if you fall down, get your *** back up on the horse and keep riding!
This is your biggest test and you need to see it thourgh. have lost my job 4 times in the last 4 years due to lay offs and the bad econemy and it really plays games with my head. It makes me feel worthles and makes me feel physically sick. You never get used to it. My family got me though it with their love and support.
Give your hubby some of that love and support by respect him enough to focus your energy on his needs, not the need to get high to escape the stress. I mean that in the most loving way, not to be judgmental. If your man is anything like me, hes feeling a little hurt and scared right now. He needs you more than you need Vicodin right now. Focus on that and consider your fall from recovery a painfull day where you could not take the pain any more. The newness of this tramatic situation can be the begining of your new adventure or the begin of your spiral down back into the hell of addiction. Dont commemorate the day your man lost his job by becoming an addict again Pearl. Make it the day you looked death in the face looked away for a second, than looked back with a smile and laughed!
Life throws us all curve balls and sometimes we get hit with them. When life throws you a curve ball, and it hits you, drop the bat and run out to the mound and kick the $HIT our of it! Dont hit yourself with the bat! Your husband got hit by the crurveball of a crapy econemy and lost his job, hes going to go find a new one. You got hit by Vicodin again. What are you going to do, sit down at the plate and eat dirt?
Your going to be fine Pearl, just pick up the bat and get back at the plate. If life hits you again, run out there and fix it! Dont quit the game, you have come too far. Its not starting all over, we all get do overs in life. Dont kick yourself, dont be depressed, dont give it a second thought, just get back at the plate and get ready to hit the ball Pearl. If anyone has an excuse, its you, but now you have used the excuse and its time to move on to help your Ol man.
FYI to King and Breaking free, I watch this site every day, I have not forgotton about you all. I have had some battles of my own to grind out over here too. I hope everyone is well!
I am ok except hubby got laid off of work. I slipped up and took some vicodin. I COULD KICK MYSELF for it and I know it was NO excuse after all that I went thru, Guess I should have been in more contact with this site. OK so guess I have to start all over again BUT I will do it.....Hope you are doing better than I am. :) This IS a battle isn't it? OK I'll write more later when I have something more positive to report. :) Precious
HEY!!! How are you? I am happy to finally be back. Let me know how you are doing!!! I can't wait to hear the good news! What day are you on now? I am thinking of you....
WOW day 5...you are on the homestretch now girl....I found the first 3-4 days the hardest. But my Dr. had me on Buspar 3 times a day....Soma 3-4 times a day and the Vicodin 3-4 times a day so I still had a little help with the other 2 drugs but HOPE to be off of at least the Soma by Christmas. This is something you have to PSYCHE yourself up for. I did a month or so of research on this site and it, too, gave me the power to even TRY to stop the vicodin after a 7 year addiction "for pain" per my Dr. :) I haven't told him yet I am not taking it. Long story but he need not know yet. I can't wait til the day when he says "you are on your own getting off of them" IF indeed he will say that. Then I'll just say...OH OK. :) The FREEDOM from the vicodin alone is so wonderful. You just keep on going. You are doing great. How many were you taking a day may I ask? I tell you if it weren't for Knight Errant and Breakingfree (2 people on this site) I am not sure I would have made it. This is a good place to be. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK...Precious
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