Change

“…People don’t like change, but they like to have changed.”

Will Bowen

I’ve heard of miraculous recoveries and miraculous discovery (of a higher power), but I’ve never heard of a miraculous relapse (I am no longer an alcoholic and can drink like a normal person).

Why it took 69 Chapters to mention my last relapse has slipped out of my mind, but I do remember a nurse at the Atlantic City Rescue Mission’s AtlantiCare Health Clinic diminishing the impact of my last four day binge, which put me into the hospital and ended nearly two years of continuous sobriety. 

She called it “a slip”. 

Here’s what happened and what I learned from it:

 

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from All Drinking Aside (Rough Draft, Chapter 69)